Clay cooking pots have been around for thousands of years, and they’re still a great idea. Like cooking in parchment, cooking in clay containers allows whole poultry and other foods to bake in their ...

You're sitting at a table, either in someone's home or in a restaurant, and a very hot earthenware pot appears. The lid is removed, a geyser of steam rushes out, and the room fills with mouthwatering ...

This week’s throwback food memory is not so much the recipe as the vessel it is cooked in. In 1967 a German company launched a clay pot under the Römertopf (“Roman pot”) brand at the Hanover World’s ...

I don’t think I’ve ever met a clay cooking pot I didn’t like . . . or want to own. I like to say that every pot in my collection tells a story. Here, in no particular order, are a few of them: I ...