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Article: From Its Home in Tennessee, the Lodge Family Has Been Creating Cast- Iron Cookware for 106 Years
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- The Washington Post
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- April 2, 2003
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"This is the first pan I ever had," says Faye Marsh, 90, as she
runs one finger across the smooth, blackened finish of a 10-inch, 6-
pound, cast-iron skillet. She remembers: "My husband went right to
the Lodge plant down the street and paid 38 cents for it back in
1932, the year we were married. Nothing better for fried chicken or
pineapple upside-down cake."
Next to Marsh is Virginia Loyd, 82, who holds a well-oiled and
heavily pitted old pan that she has cherished for more than 60 years.
"My aunt Belle Wilhelm gave me this skillet in 1937 and she had it
for years. So it's old, old, so old," she says. In recent years, Loyd
uses this particular cast-iron piece exclusively for corn bread.
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