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Article: Lodge cast-iron cookware still a hot commodity
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 9, 2003
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SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - "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 ...