The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Book excerpt: Learn how to season cast iron, clean cast iron, and cook 95 tantalizing recipes in your cast iron skillet. Now with full-color photography throughout, this cookbook aims to show modern cooks how this inexpensive cast iron tool is the best pan in their kitchen. Fusing new and traditional recipes and gathering farm-fresh produce and ingredients, mother-daughter team Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis Hearne show cooks how to make delicious food in this versatile skillet. Recipes include: Dungeness Crab Cakes with Tarragon Aioli; Dutch Baby (puffed pancake with lemon and powdered sugar); Grilled Prosciutto-Wrapped Radicchio; and Warm Pear Upside Down Cake. This collection of recipes invites all cooks to get reacquainted with the original gourmet cooking tool.