Does smoke get in your eyes when you sit by your roaring fireplace fire?  You can fix that fireplace back-puffing problem if you correctly diagnose its cause.

Much as summer's warm days and plentiful rains lead to sun-ripened tomatoes and plump eggplants, frigid winter is the promise on which comfort food relies. Instinctively, we gravitate to the stove and the gifts it gives us. Time, now somehow a little less urgent, is given a wider berth, one generous enough to accommodate a rising yeast dough,
or the baking of an apple pie, or the preparation of sauerbraten.