Andrew Beahrs

Biography

Andrew Beahrs is the author of Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens (Penguin, 2010) and two historical novels, Strange Saint (Toby, 2005) and The Sin Eaters (Toby, 2008). He has written about food and history for Smithsonian, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Gastronomica. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

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REPORTING / Fall 2013

Three-Stone Fire

By Andrew Beahrs

The three-​stone fire remains nearly universal among the 3 billion people who rely on solid biomass fuels like firewood, charcoal, and dung. But the three-​stone fire is hellishly inefficient, transferring as little as 10 percent of the...