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.

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 ...

Tonight, we step back in time, right here in New Hampshire, and learn about how food was cooked in an open hearth. Jean Mackin samples the flavors of some tried-and-true recipes cooked in the ...

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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 ...