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Article: Heavy Metal Mania/ Chef sings praises of cast iron
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- February 19, 2003
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You've got your Calphalon and Circulon. Your Le Creuset and
Anolon, your Kitchen Aid and All-Clad.
But do you really need to dish out hundreds of dollars for
designer-label, high-end cookware when there's good old cast iron
around?
Durable, functional and relatively inexpensive, cast iron has so
much going for it, it's a wonder more cooks don't use it. Maybe it's
because cast iron seems so old-fashioned compared to all the modern-
looking $300-plus industrial cookware sets, and indeed, it's among
the oldest cookware known to man.
"Columbus brought it to the New World in 1492," says Bob
Kellermann, owner of Lodge Manufacturing Co., a Tennessee firm that
has been making cast-iron cookware ...