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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...