For more on the history and science of cooking in clay (and plenty of amazing recipes), check out The Food & Wine Guide to Clay Pot Cooking. Clay pots are beloved around the world for their ability to ...

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 ...

Discovering how ancient civilizations ate helps us truly understand what life was like before our time. Sometimes, those insights come from ancient food itself, left behind in traces on used cookware.

I love to watch the professionals make bo jai fan (clay pot rice) – they do it with such ease, moving the pots from one blazing hot burner (charcoal, please – it tastes better) to a slightly cooler ...

One of the most popular dishes in Indian cuisine here in the U.S. is tandoori chicken, and it has a lot more in common with Texas cooking than a person would think. It’s traditionally cooked over ...

Roasted fish on a stick is OK, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to cook up some fish soup? That's what might have crossed the minds of hunter-gatherers who made the world's first cooking pots. A new ...

On a blustery day in October, Andrew Langley and 13 other graduate students headed to the woods to learn to boil water. They were allowed no obvious cooking vessels: no pots, no pans, no bowls, no ...

Analysing three components of ceramic cooking pots ― charred remains, inner surface residues and lipids absorbed within the ceramic walls ― may help archaeologists uncover detailed timelines of ...