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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