Cast-Iron Will

HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE SOUTH’S FAVORITE SKILLET

BY VIVIAN HOWARD

COUNTRY ACCENT China has its wok, France its sauteuse, India its tandoor, Argentina its parrilla—and we in the United States have our cast-iron skillet. Traditional European vessels that evolved here to suit the campfires of American settlers on their way west, cast-iron skillets, however, are more than a part of our history, particularly as Southerners. I believe they serve as a measuring stick for the way Americans feel about time spent in the kitchen. Even though I grew up in the rural South, that particular bastion of cast iron, my mother never cooked with it. I remember seeing a few black skillets shoved to the nether regions of the cabinet under our Frigidaire range, sticky and rusted. I assumed they must have been cheap pans that came with the stove.…

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