The pan sitting at the back of a thrift store shelf, orange with rust and crusted with decades of carbonized grease, looks like a lost cause. It isn't. Cast iron is essentially indestructible as long ...

The small raised dot or pebbled pattern on the bottom of old cast iron cookware is a direct clue to when and where it was made. Pre-WWII sand-casting techniques left behind distinctive textures that ...

When I saw an old Griswold cast-iron skillet and lid at an estate sale in Santa Fe last summer, I didn’t quite know what to do. For a few minutes, I stood there like a log stuck in an eddy, running my ...

My heart breaks at the thought of all the neglected cast iron cookware out there, stacked on thrift store shelves or buried in kitchen cabinets, dreaming of being restored, seasoned, and back on the ...