STOCKTON — Tom Lawson showed off his latest masterpiece with the pride of a fine craftsman. “This is a real beauty,” he said of the gleaming 600-pound blue, white and silver cast-iron stove. “You ...

Cooks love classic ranges for their retro looks and surprisingly sophisticated performance In our shiny, stainless-steel, industrial-chic world, Vikings and Wolfs reign supreme, with legions of ...

The stove that is the hallowed centerpiece in the renovated home of Deborah and John Jakubek is hardly one of the modern-day, gleaming trophy stoves with warrior names such as Viking or Wolf. Their ...

Nearly a century ago, a family likely depended on this Majestic Manufacturing Company stove to cook meals, boil water and provide heat during chilly winter days. Now a relic, this wood and coal range ...

Don Link helped build one of the country's great wine cellars at the storied Berkeley restaurant Narsai's. His wife Roberta Klugman formerly headed the American Institute of Wine & Food, and now works ...

The Bushwhacked economy has at least one upside: It has put crazy things that once seemed sane farther out of reach. Once upon a time, like a year ago, many cooks would not even blink at spending ...

Paul Farr and his wife, Audrey Farr, pose for a portrait among antique stoves on Monday, June 15, 2020, in North Ogden. Paul Farr collects and restores the wood- and coal-burning stoves. NORTH OGDEN — ...

DULUTH – These stoves tell stories. Dennis Gunsolus knows them all. His basement is a showroom of more than 200 ornate and meticulously restored home heating devices that date back more than a century ...

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There’s no heat like wood heat. Talk to people who have wood-burning stoves and that’s what you’ll hear time and again. “It’s comfortable heat,” says Bert Beatty of Paxico, Kan. “It warms your bones.” ...