Ready, set … grill!

Ready for a smoke-and-fire-filled Fourth? There's nothing quite like revving up the grill for what feels like the semi-official start of the high-summer season. There's something primal and utterly satisfying about cooking over open flame. Food cooked outdoors, however, does not need to be limited to burgers and dogs. Stumped about how to make a […]

Where there’s smoke…

Mark Rosenstein is the founder of The Market Place restaurant in downtown Asheville and a major proponent of cooking with fire — he’s even built a stone wood-fired oven in his backyard. Rosenstein will lead a cooking series, “Fire and Ice,” on Sunday, July 17. Students will learn about wood grilling, how to make wood-oven […]

Recipe: Leg-o-lamb

"It's a little messy, but it's the most fantastic lamb I've ever had," says Rosenstein. "You start out with a leg of lamb — bone in or bone out. Get gobs of rosemary — three or four dozen long sprigs. Wrap the lamb in rosemary, then tie that all together with butcher's twine. Roast it […]

Fire, hold the meat

Jason Sellers, a vegan chef, is opening his new restaurant, Plant, later this summer. What does a vegan cook have to do with a grill? Everything, says Sellers. Smoke imparts a certain amount of umami to vegetables and vegetarian proteins, he says. “Many people don’t think about it this way,” he says, “but grill is […]

Keeping it juicy

Cooking something that you want to keep juicy on an open grill doesn't always work to your benefit, says Meherwan Irani, the owner and executive chef of Chai Pani. "You lose so many of the juices back into the grill," he says. "So what I've got at home is a piece of sheet metal that's […]