For our ancestors, fireplace-cooking was a tedious, time-consuming, physically demanding, dirty and somewhat dangerous endeavor. But cooking an entire meal in the fireplace was a three-times-a-day ...

It takes about two hours and eight logs to get a nice bed of embers for cooking. We learned this when a glowing red and white-hot bed remained after another lazy holiday fire was fed log after log.

Cooking in your fireplace can be the ultimate in home cooking, full of wood-roasted flavors. Michael Symon's new book, "Playing With Fire," includes several recipes that can be made in there, ...

Despite the gleaming Viking stove in my kitchen, I dream of hearth cooking. I want to hear sausages sizzling over embers and smell the aromas of smoke and hot fat. Whenever my husband builds a fire, ...

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I expected a strange look and a question or two from my dinner guests. After all, I was standing in front of a red hot fireplace with a wild look in my eye and a large flap of meat dangling from my ...

Things often have unexpected consequences. Who would have thought that the English invention about 1750 of a process for rolling iron into sheets thin enough and large enough to produce stove pipe ...

Assistant Fire Chief John T. Fleck of the Lexington Fire Department says cooking in your fireplace is OK and “sounds great.” Before you do, he says, “Make sure the fireplace and chimney are up to code ...