Roasting Quail and making coffee Cooking over coals: Cooking over a campfire looks easy until you ruin a meal or two. The movies make it look simple. Meat sizzling. Sparks flying. Smiles all around. But in the real world, cooking over an open flame can turn a perfect steak into a blackened mess before the inside ever gets warm. I learned this the hard way. When you’re hungry and the fire looks right, it’s easy to toss food straight over the flames. The problem is that flames