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 ...

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, ...

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.

Start simple with roasting sausages on a skewer or make an after-dinner s'more, but you can cook a full meal right on the flames of your living room fireplace. To control the heat, use coal briquettes ...

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 ...

Cooking a meal and heating a house were tremendous tasks 250 years ago. Both were time-consuming and labor-intensive. Meals were cooked over the open fire in a fireplace, and begun early in the ...

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 ...

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 ...