Everything started around the fire. Everything we know today as human culture on one way or another is a result of "taming" fire.

And cooking! 🙂

I really like to cook over fire. I do it every now and then. Because nothing tastes like food cooked over fire. Watching and cooking over bonfire requires all your senses. You have to use your hands to make the fire itself, instead of turning on a fancy (or less fancy) stove. You can smell the smoke, and you cannot do anything about it, it goes everywhere. Into you clothes, hair, even into your skin, but first of all into the food. It entertains your eyes with its flames for hours long, just as well your ears if you listen carefully. And last but not least your tastebuds, when you eat the food you (and the fire) cooked.

Cooking a bowl of soup or stew in a big pot for hours and hours long worth like nothing else. Meanwhile you are talking, drinking dancing over the fire...

When the food is ready; you eat it, enjoy it, then you drink more wine, and dance more. In the end don't forget to throw some apples stuffed with marcipan on the embers and eat it in the very end of everything.

Such an experience is like travelling through time. You can make exactly the same as our ancestors did. Today we are not depended on making a fire every day not to be eaten or eat cooked food. But sometimes it is more than okay to make a fire as a reminder, where we came from. Where the whole thing has started. Where the microwave has evolved from.

But either way, it is one of the best way of spending time, just sitting around the fire and watching it alone or with others. Be with people you know, or not (yet) and share some thoughts, slow down, and just be. Any fire requires your full presence and attention which makes the experience totally mindful. Nothing gives you the same feeling as being able to handle one of the basic elements. Nothing. If you have ever made bonfire, you already know that.