Campfire Café Saddles Up with American Cowboy Magazine

Campfire Café TV series and host, Johnny Nix, have formed an alliance with American Cowboy Magazine and Cowboy.com. Nixs gourmet open fire cooking helps keep the cowboy spirit alive today by inspiring viewers to give this forgotten method a try.

Marble Hill, MO (PRWEB) March 3, 2005 --- American Cowboy Magazine will feature articles, recipes and open fire tips and techniques from Johnny Nix during 2005-2006. The most widely read Western lifestyle magazine, featuring entertainment, the Arts, history, travel, cooking, music, fashion and rodeo -- American Cowboy is the number one source for outstanding content that captures the spirit of the West.

The alliance with American Cowboy Magazine is a natural", says executive producer, Pamela Alford. Theres a little cowboy spirit in all of us and open fire cooking fits right in with the lifestyle American Cowboy represents." Nix has inspired viewers to give this traditional cowboy way of cooking a try by introducing gourmet recipes and step-by-step instruction in weekly television programming for almost three years. His weekly demonstrations of this method of cooking as a recreational, family-oriented activity is catching the eye of organizations that promote healthy, outdoor pursuits. Wed like to remind folks that are too busy to spend quality time with their kids that we all have to eat", says Nix. Might as well stoke up a campfire and cook some good food -- never met a kid that didnt like to poke in the fire."

Embracing that outdoor, cowboy spirit is something that host Johnny Nix comes by honestly. Having 25 years of open fire cooking experience, as well as being a farrier, blacksmith and accomplished horseman, Nix represents what might be considered cowboy evolution". Todays cowboy has certainly taken on new interests, and old time techniques have been drastically updated, as surely as Johnnys gourmet recipes are no longer 'bacon and beans -- but rather Stuffed Rack of Lamb and Black Forest Ribbon Cake!

"Fresh air, good food and a warm campfire surrounded by friends and family...it just don't get no better than that, I guarantee you," says host Johnny Nix.

The Campfire Café weekly television series is entering its sixth season on public television and airs on over 100 PBS stations nationally. The series also airs on RFD-TV, channel 9409 on DISH Network and channel 379 on DIRECTV, PAX network affiliates and various cable networks. American Cowboy Magazine offers premium coverage of all things Western and more information can be found on-line at www.cowboy.com.

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