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Archive for September 2011

What is a Dutch Oven?

Sep 15th, 2011 | By Chef Steele | Category: Articles, Cookware

What is a Dutch Oven?
You always see them in movies depicting the old west. They’re woven into the fabric of American History, but are they useful in today’s world? Or are they relics of a bygone era?
A Dutch oven is basically a heavy-duty pot with a lid. Most often it’s made out [...]



Terence Conran and Le Creuset

Sep 9th, 2011 | By Chef Steele | Category: Cookware

From an interview/article in the Telegraph: “Until Conran, Sabatier knives and Le Creuset were available only in specialist shops for the catering trade. Garlic crushers were unheard of. You could say that he made Britain continental. As the satirist Craig Brown once put it, before Conran ‘there were no chairs and no France’.”
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