Cooking with fire is as primal as food gets—it’s a foundational facet of our humanity. Evidence suggests that humans were only able to evolve our big, energy-hungry brains after we learned to use fire ...

Chicken being cooked using an open-flame. Tom Ellis cooks using an open-flame when his catering business, The Swell Party, is at weddings or other events. Brandon Snooks, executive chef for Farm to ...