With Memorial Day comes the start of camping season, and here's a new tool to put in your pack: Patty Ruwoldt's Open Range Cook'n: Home on the Range Cooking Made Easy -- A Camp Cook's Guide to Tasty Vittles. Not only does the book include recipes for satisfying meals you can cook in the great outdoors, but also songs and snippets of folklore that should spark up those late-night campfire sessions.

We caught up with Ruwoldt to talk about camping, cooking and the art of conversation, and she gave us an al fresco recipe to share: chicken stew for two.

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Aaron Thackeray

Great Divide's 17th Anniversary Party.

The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing's Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format -- one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before taking two years off for a brewery expansion. The event returned last year and hosted 3,000 people; this year, Odell is expecting about 5,000.

But growing crowds at beer fests (see our rundown of a few upcoming ones below) aren't unique to Odell.

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Charlie's Ice Cream Social

Just in time for a long, sunny weekend, Denver's about to get another ice cream parlor: Charlie's Ice Cream Social, a '30s and '40s-themed soft-serve spot, will throw open its doors today, offering frozen treats to the Berkeley neighborhood.

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Imbibe, an experience-oriented deal site that's not related to the publication of the same name, was born of Casey Berry's desire to help people get the most out of Denver. "You know that feeling you get when you find out about someplace new and you go there and it's awesome? That's what we're trying to do. We're not just trying to sell packages," he said when he launched the site a month and a half ago.

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Happy Place: Highland Tap and Burger, 2219 West Thirty Second Avenue, 720-287-4493.

The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 3 to 6:30 p.m.

The Deals: $1 off draft beers; $3 house ale and cocktails; $4 wines by the glass and margaritas; $3-$7 food specials.

Were we happy? Flip the page to find out.

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If you're a product of the '70s, and spent your spare time eating a salisbury steak TV dinner while glued to Lee Majors flexing his bionic implants on the Six Million Dollar Man, then you and that goofball, Johnny Ballen, the tall, lanky bean who owns the Squeaky Bean, have at least one thing in common.

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Lori Midson

First thing's first: This scallop ceviche tostada is not from T|ACO, which, in addition to a lineup of t|a|c|o|s, does, in fact, serve ceviche. But if you were planning to go in that direction, you'd be mistaken. Rather, the ceviche in the above snap hails from another taco joint that just added the citrus-marinated seafood dish to its menu.

Can you guess where I'm eating?

Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's Guess Where posts is entered into a pool -- and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who'll receive an EatDenver dining deck, worth up to $520 in discounts at independent restaurants. Read all about EatDenver dining decks here.

Yes, someone just found yet another @#$% finger in his %$#@ food -- and this time, it apparently wasn't planted for the purpose of a lawsuit (but I wouldn't be shocked if a lawsuit ensues).

Michigan teen Ryan Hart was chowing down on a roast beef sandwich at Arby's when he bit on a "rubbery" piece of meat, which turned out to be non-cow and all-human. It was a chunk of finger, which an employee had lopped off on a meat slicer earlier -- but since co-workers were allegedly unaware of the accident, they proceeded to inadvertently serve this kid a soylent-sammie.

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Mark Dym, owner of Marco's Coal Fired Pizzeria , is taking his pizza on the road with a brand-new mobile pizza oven -- and his first stop is quirky nanobrewery Wit's End Brewing Company.

For his mobile version of Marco's, Dym wanted an authentic Neapolitan pizza oven to continue his commitment to real Italian pies, so he ended up importing an oven from Italy and driving it from Florida all the way back to Denver.

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Tonight, at 4 p.m., on the corner of Ninth and Bannock, a fleet of food trucks and carts are gathering for the season opener of the Food Truck Renegades, a coalition of mobile vendors that includes Crock Spot, the Steuben's food truck, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick It To Me, Mythos Greek, the Biscuit Bus, and more.

And earlier this week, we offered one Cafe Society commenter the chance to eat and drink for free at the shindig. In order to win, you had to answer the following question: How many pounds of pork has Crock Spot served since January 1, 2012?

The correct answer is 2,416 pounds, and the person who came the closest without going over (yes, that was our rule), is...

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