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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...