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 ...

Russ Moore is the chef and owner at Camino in Oakland. He worked at Alice Waters' Chez Panisse for over 20 years before he opened Camino in 2008. Chef Moore prefers to cook on the hearth over a fire ...