Cooking on the open campfire can be so much fun. The popularity of outdoor cooking is on the rise. Of course, hunters and anglers have been cooking outdoors over campfires way before the popularity of cooking on an outdoor grill or smoker came onto the scene. For many, the move from campfire to grill is an easy one. Whether on the campfire of on the grill at home, cooking outdoors is a fun and easy way to fix meals that has been around for centuries. From prehistory to the American push west, campfires have long been a place where meals were fixed and topics of the day were discussed. Hunters and anglers, campers and the average joe in his back yard at the grill a meal outdoors is something that all cherish.