Figure 1. Potential energy curves for a reaction proceeding homogenously (full curve) or on a surface (dotted line). Charcoal is perhaps the oldest known fuel, having been...

Anyone who has sat around a campfire or witnessed a forest fire knows that wood burns. But they are also aware that wood generates a great deal of smoke as it burns. This is a result of the incomplete combustion of the oils and resin in the wood, along...

Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by heating wood, sugar, bone char, or others substances in the...

I never write about politics in this column. But this is an election year, this is The Washington Post, and I cannot remain silent any longer. The most vital issue facing our nation is so critical, and the two candidates so contrasting, that I...

Charcoal Grill, Heinemann's set to open in Grafton By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN lsussman@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Friday, May 21, 2004 Grafton -- Two sit-down restaurants, a Charcoal Grill & Rotisserie and a Heinemann's, are set to open at the eastern end of Grafton...

Some years ago, I began hearing about the drawings of the American artist Emily Nelligan, and it was mostly other artists who were talking up her work. I soon discovered that it was these other artists who were also buying Ms. Nelligan's drawings. The mainstream...

Alton Brown defines cooking as “Food + Heat.” Barbecue season’s here and there’s no more basic, primal technique of adding heat to food than fire. Cooking on an open fire goes all the way back to prehistoric Barbecue-Man. And while he probably wasn’t clutching a...