Article: Heavy Metal Mania/ Chef sings praises of cast iron

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

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