Stewart Holt wrote:
(Food and clothes are a better source of warmth than a fire.)
These are some exerts from Thoreau's Walden to touch one the fire subject. I suggest that everyone check it out, it is more meaningful today than ever:
"Man has invented, not only houses, but clothes and cooked food; and possibly from the accidental discovery of the warmth of fire, and the consequent use of it, at first a luxury, arose the present necessity to sit by it."
"By proper Shelter and Clothing we legitimately retain our own internal heat; but with an excess of these or of Fuel, that is, with an external heat greater than our own internal, may not cookery properly be said to begin? Darwin, the Naturalist, says of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that while his own party, who were clothed and sitting close to a fire, were far from too warm, these naked savages, who were farther off, were observed, to his great surprise, "to be streaming with perspiration at undergoing such a roasting."
Now don't get me wrong I get just as cold as the the next guy, but these are just some interesting things to think about.
Later, Ginseng Sullivan
MZ