There's its primal connection to past generations of live-fire hearth masters.
The Mass will begin outside with the blessing of the fire at the Easter Fire Hearth on the Plaza.
Apparently, the miners used some in building their fire hearths.
NEW DELHI — In tens of millions of homes in rural India, the kitchen is a cramped space with walls blackened by soot from open fire hearths.
The executive chef at Metta, a South American restaurant with a wood-fired hearth in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, will be moving on.
The Dabney: Mid-Atlantic cuisine is emphasized to delicious effect by Jeremiah Langhorne, with the help of his wood-fired hearth.
The crispy flatbreads, baked in a wood-fired hearth, are essentially thin-crust pizzas topped with things like kalamata olives, sweet red peppers, goat cheese, rosemary and red onions ($9.75 for a personal; $16.95 for a pie that can feed two).
(Note: "traditional Bulgarian folk music" is a threat, not a sales pitch.) Only one mexana really pleased me: the tout-free Dedo Tace, where much of the delicious menu — garlic bread, rabbit stew and, of course, kebabs — was prepared in the wood-fired hearth at the center of the cozy room.
At the recently-opened Rake's Progress and A Rake's Bar, located on the second level, chef Spike Gjerde doles out hyper-local cuisine (like Rock Hall rockfish and Virginia hams), much of which is fired in a stone hearth.
Modernism has sent up its pyrotechnics, but stories and scenes still fuel the hearth fire, and Turner is a storyteller and scene-setter.
Moreover, Philolaus calls the central fire "the hearth," whose positive connotations as the religious center of the house and state are hard to reconcile with its being the place of punishment, Tartarus.
