The Open Hearth Kitchen centers around a traditional open hearth used for cooking and warmth, with rustic stone floors and wooden beams enhancing the historical charm. Hand-forged iron tools and dried herbs add old-world touches, perfect for those who appreciate historical accuracy in rustic kitchen design. Click or tap to see more open hearth kitchen ideas.

Over the weekend, our regiment's very own expert in eighteenth-century foodways led a workshop in hearth cooking at a lovely 1765 house owned by another couple from our group. It was a prodigiously educational day and I learned enough to finally feel like I'll actually be comfortable not only preparing meals during events, but even intelligently conversing with visitors about what I'm doing! Yes, folks, progress has been made with me and cooking! ;-) We began our day with a lesson in how to…

In power outages, alternative ways to cook & heat water are important. Here's a list of handy off-grid cooking methods to choose from.

Some people claim that winter is ski season. Or hockey season. Or skating season. Some of us know better. In New England, it’s eating season.

Just because summer is over doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying food cooked over an open fire! If you have a wood-burning fireplace in your home, you can grill, skewer, simmer, and cook a variety of different foods all year long. Make...

Fireplace & Cooking – Hoffman's Forge

Building on age-old cooking methods. Grilling with a spit and andirons, with a roasting jack, a trammel hook, with a trivet, gridiron or Dutch oven.

Philosophy While rewarding in so many other ways, authentic fireplace cooking (where entire meals are cooked in the fireplace), truth be known, is a tedious, time consuming, physically demanding, dirty, and somewhat dangerous endeavor. I say this as an ex-restaurant chef who has spent countless hours cooking under dema

Cooking at Home Over a Wood Fire — Charles van Over