A chuckwagon or chuck wagon is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. They were included in wagon trains for settlers and traveling workers such as cowboys or loggers. In modern times, chuckwagons feature in special cooking competitions and events. Chuckwagons are also used in a type of competition known as chuckwagon racing.
Chuckwagon used to prepare food at gatherings, Texas 2014
Chuckwagon on a Texas roundup, 1900
An authentic chuckwagon, Texas 2007
The Rangeland Derby race at the Calgary Stampede (2017)
A field kitchen is a kitchen used primarily by militaries to provide hot food to troops near the front line or in temporary encampments. Designed to be easily and quickly moved, they are usually mobile kitchens or mobile canteens, though static and tent-based field kitchens exist and are widely used.
A World War II-era field kitchen used by the Czechoslovak Army
Royal Hungarian Army soldiers at a field kitchen in 1938
From left to right: containerized kitchen, trailer kitchen, assault kitchen
The Schleswig-Holstein Landesfeuerwehr providing catering using field kitchens in Kiel, 1968