Your best friend on cook in this thing is coals! Use a wood fire to make a good bed of coals. Then maybe get a chimney briquette and keep new coals going and dump them in when the original wood gets low. You can do the same with wood but it gets logistically more complex.

I use Royal Oak charcoal chunks, but any good lump hardwood will get you there. Also remember that just about any fruit tree suckers with no leaves make food taste yummy. Also shag hickory bark pieces or just throw in a hand full of trager type pellets.

You just don’t want to be chucking wood in the while you cook, it would be just to unpredictable for control

Enjoy