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, ...

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.

Have you ever wondered how Maryland women prepared food for their families when they had to cook over an open fire? It was not only possible for them to produce a complete meal, but the food they ...

Open-hearth cooking is probably the least-explored atavism in the modern kitchen. Culinary purists who unflinchingly butcher their own fowl or grind their spices with a mortar and pestle tend to draw ...

Release your inner Girl Scout: Forget the oven, abandon the microwave, and get ready to make dinner in the fireplace. Sound like fun? Then William Rubel’s “The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking” (Ten ...

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FALL RIVER – A restoration effort of the Lafayette-Durfee House, circa 1750, will bring history into the present and carve a future for this important city structure. “This is going to be a living ...

WARREN, Vt. – The Pitcher Inn’s executive chef, Jacob Ennis, is poking about in the floor-to-ceiling red brick fireplace in the Vermont inn’s elegant 275 Main restaurant. Breakfast service is over and ...

Long before electric ranges came along and just before wood-burning stoves made their appearance, open hearths were used by early residents of Volusia County for cooking, heating and several other ...

Damp, gray smoke climbed from the chimney of the Hibbs House and floated lazily toward the nearby Delaware River, much as it must have done almost 170 years ago. It was an early Saturday morning, and ...

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 ...