The knowledge of how to transform mud into pottery signifies a major leap forward for prehistoric cultures, and until the development of metal cooking pots, ceramic pottery was the pinnacle of cooking ...

Mary-Frances Heck is a chef and food editor, formerly a senior food editor at Food & Wine. In addition to her recipes and articles appearing in many well-known publications, she has her own cookbook, ...

They say it takes a village to raise a child. According to Al Boucher, it took a similar approach to create a clay studio in Grand Forks. "Potters don't like to work alone," said Boucher, as he cut a ...

Seeing earthen pots, also known as clay pots, around evokes a sense of nostalgia, connecting me to childhood memories and the times we used to visit my maternal grandmother in our hometown. She cooked ...

Drinking water from clay pots has been a tradition in various cultures and offers numerous benefits. The porous walls of clay pots naturally cool the water through evaporative cooling, making it ...

Eight-year-old Siobhan Colleran knows how, and she even made her own coil pot using the same technique during an elementary ceramics class offered by Bullfrog School of Fine Arts and Crafts at the ...

Art League pottery student Joyce Davenport, 68, of Fairfax, recalls how she felt when she threw her first pot on the potter’s wheel. “I thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” Ms. Davenport says of her ...