Rummaging around thrift shops and yard sales may uncover old-fashioned cookware, but how can you tell if something is vintage ...

If you're looking for a good deal, nothing beats a thrift store. Keep an eye out for these markings and that cast iron pan ...

“Drying is the most important step—moisture is cast iron’s only real enemy,” according to the Shafers. After washing, they ...

Cast iron cookware is back. Or maybe it never left. If your head is filling with images of chuck wagons full of dangling pots amidst a herd of grazing cattle, well, cowboy, you've been on the range a ...

My grandmother’s cast-iron pans were a thing of dark beauty. Ink black, smooth as glass and obsidian shiny. She cared for them as any home cook would a treasured kitchen tool: Her cast iron was always ...

C.W. Welch, who goes by Butch — or, depending on how well you know him, Cee Dub — has made evangelizing camp cooking his life’s work. The former Idaho conservation officer has penned cookbooks, run a ...

Virginia Willis’ grandmother made everything in a cast-iron skillet, from cornbread to fried chicken. Now Willis, a prolific cookbook author and food stylist, owns her grandmother’s skillet, which is ...

Google, Amazon, Smithey Ironware — they all got their starts in garages, and all have a Charleston-area presence today. Isaac Morton, founder of Smithey Ironware, technically tinkered in his woodshed ...