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In a new cookbook, Firepit Feast, author Diana Yen puts food on the fire

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Diana Yen—food stylist, cookbook writer, and photographer from Ojai, California—came up with the idea for her cookbook, Firepit Feast: Adventurous Recipes for Live-Fire Cooking (Artisan Books, 2025) after discovering a passion for live-fire cooking on a camping trip during the pandemic in 2020. “I realized how much I didn’t know about fire and heat, which are so essential to cooking,” Yen says. “So I set out to challenge myself. I wanted to be able to cook just as well over a fire outdoors as I did inside on a stove.”