When you lose someone you love, it sometimes helps to have a special keepsake as a reminder. Such is the case with my recently acquired clay pot. After my friend and longtime Chronicle colleague ...

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 ...

If there's one thing that I've learned about cooking, it's that you get the best results when you use the proper equipment. Case in point: My mom is a great candy maker. I'd put her fudge and panoche ...

Most cooks collect gadgets or knives. Some focus on inspirational books. Mediterranean food expert and author Paula Wolfert fills her kitchen with various styles of clay pots, accumulated over decades ...

Like Julia Child with boeuf bourguignon, Paula Wolfert brought mezze to the masses. In "Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking," the doyenne of Mediterranean cuisine lasers in on the particular art of meals ...