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His most familiar, "The Christmas Song"—cowritten with Robert Wells and better known by its opening line, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"—was made famous by Nat King Cole in 1946 and subsequently recorded in more than 1,700 versions.

Some of these sheltered tents; a larger one was a kitchen, where an open fire was burning; and another was built over a long wooden table, beside which hung a 2006 Audubon Society calendar that had been neatly converted — with glue, paper, and an extravagant superfluity of time — into a 2007 calendar.

The procession brought the trees to the barracks, in whose yard an open fire was built.

"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 1990, and has received positive reviews from television critics.

Because "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" was considered a separate special, The Simpsons was nominated twice in the Animated Program category.

Although "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" was the first episode of the series to air on TV, it was the eighth episode produced by the staff.

The sight of chestnuts roasting over an open fire is a wonderfully autumnal one.

But cooking meat over an open fire is more or less where human beings began.

We all agree that roasting babies over an open fire is wrong, but we can't agree on the reasons why we agree that.

Cooking on an open fire is the ideal opportunity for messy cooking: charred jacket potatoes, fish cooked in clay, or an American-style rack of ribs with a dry, spicy rub.

Alluring though this vision is, the closest many of us will get to roasting chestnuts on an open fire is hearing Nat King Cole singing about doing so on the radio.