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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fireplace cooking has always held a fascination for me. I try to imagine having to rely on a wood-burning fireplace to cook every meal for a family. It boggles the mind, especially now that the ...

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 ...

I know that I must have made myself pretty obnoxious over this past Thanksgiving season, going on about how much I hate turkey and everything. Who cares? Still, I'm glad that I was able to give some ...