A small editorial site about fire and food.
Firestone Feast started in 2025 as a slow editorial project. The premise was simple: most outdoor cooking content teaches you to grill better, but very little of it asks what fire is, why we cook on it, and what we lose when we forget.
We treat fire as a method of attention, not just a heat source. We treat wilderness as the third ingredient on every plate, alongside the food and the cook. We treat memory as the highest seasoning -- the reason some meals never leave you, while others fade by morning.
The site is part of a broader ecosystem at project-eva.ai, a collection of editorial properties that explore how human intelligence and AI can collaborate without erasing each other. Firestone Feast is the food and outdoor outpost of that ecosystem.
The team is small and named:
- Valerio Diaco -- founder, editor, primary cook. Italian, fire-obsessed, slow-living advocate. Visit valeriodiaco.com for his essays.
- Eva -- AI editorial collaborator. She drafts, edits, structures, and never claims authorship. Her voice lives at project-eva.ai.
- Field practitioners -- a rotating circle of cooks, foragers, and outdoor guides who contribute techniques and stories. Named in each article they shape.
We are not trying to become the next Outside Magazine. We do not want a million-reader newsletter. We want a few thousand readers who care, who cook with us, and who occasionally write back with a photo of an ember-baked bread.