A good cast iron pan will serve you well for a lifetime—and with care, can be handed down, too. Even so, many good cast iron pieces end up in junk yards or at thrift stores, rusting and forgotten. If ...

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 ...

Among collectors, conversations about cast iron have a way of getting sentimental, and they often land in the same place: craftsmanship. “Cast-iron pans used to be made by hand,” says Mary Theisen, an ...

Q: I accidentally allowed the top of a drafting table I am refinishing to fall over and hit the concrete floor in my garage. Unfortunately, one of the cast-iron channels that allow the top to change ...

Items for hanging up coats seem mundane for an antiques article until one sees the astonishing inventions that were produced and presumably sold to someone. In the 19th century and up to World War I, ...