VILORIA, Spain – Even though he receives the occasional helping hand from his 22-year old son, Miguel Lander knows that the days of making charcoal the traditional way are counted in these remote ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of making charcoal using only primitive tools and natural materials. This provides ...

The lengths to which chefs will go to customize the dining experience are astounding: fermenting their own soy sauce, burning vegetable scraps for ash salt, curing fish charcuterie — it’s all in a day ...

There’s no reason I need to make charcoal—I don’t normally use it for anything, and if I did, bags of it are so easy to buy. But I find the whole process of exhausting wood sticks into little brittle ...

The making of charcoal was once a very important industry in Gloucester County. Wood choppers leveled the forests of pine, oak and white cedar. The heavy timbers were sent to saw mills for making ...

Adam H. Callaghan is a Quality Team Developmental Editor for Food & Wine. A multilingual editor and writer based in New England, he's worked across digital and print for over 10 years covering food ...