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.

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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, ...

Fireplaces provide warmth, comfort and ambience during our seemingly endless winters. But for a growing number of Minnesotans, they also serve as a year-round cooking tool. The first time Ingrid ...

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 ...

In the winter, I cook in my fireplace. I’ve been doing this for the past three years, and like any ongoing relationship, I’m getting a little better at it and a little more involved each year. My wife ...