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, ...

Preliminaries: Pat the chickens dry with paper towels, season inside and out with salt, and refrigerate, uncovered, for at least 1 hour or overnight. Just before cooking begins, soak the butcher's ...

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 ...