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Article: CAST-IRON WOOS NEW GENERATION GRANDMA'S HEAVY-DUTY SKILLET HASN'T OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2002
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The time may come when American cooks say, "Grandma left me her
All Clad MasterChef2 collection," or "My sister got the sideboard; I
took the Caphalon."
Until that day arrives, however, the culinary tool most likely to
have been passed down from one generation to the next is the cast-
iron skillet. Cast-iron would seem to be an unlikely heirloom, what
with competitors offering features like non-stick silicon interiors,
sandwiched aluminum alloy construction, and celebrity chef signature
designs.
Once you start looking for it, though, cast-iron is more coveted
than cast-off.
"I know several people with $100,000 collections," says David
Smith, cast-iron collector and author of two books and a ...