Kitchens with Copper: Jacques Pépin
“We are all equal in the eyes of the stove.”
History
History of coppermakers and coppercrafting
Kitchens with copper: The Breakers
The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, with a kitchen full of copper.
Copper at Giverny
Claude Monet’s house has a kitchen filled with antique French copper. Let’s take a look.
Get to know: The Pommes Anna pan
“Never underestimate the metamorphoses that the culinary arts can cause the taste of the potato to undergo.”
Kitchens with copper: Frýdlant Castle, Czech Republic
This historic kitchen is a valuable find for copper detectives.
Kitchens with copper: Buckingham Palace
This working kitchen provides a different sort of inspiration.
Kitchens with copper: Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, New York
This three-starred micro-restaurant serves intimate tasting meals cooked in copper.
Kitchens with copper: Windsor Castle
For the first post of this series, let’s start with “one of the oldest working kitchens in the world.”
How it was made: High-top daubière
As John Fuller Sr. says, “The cover is a difficult piece of work.”
How it was made: English stockpot
Let’s look at how a 19th century stockpot was assembled by hand.
Cookware advice from 19th century England
Until you have spent some time online reading antique English cookbooks, my friend, you have not lived.
Nickel, the “perfect metal”
There was a time in France when nickel was touted as the ideal replacement for copper.
Copper by hand: Historical poêlerie in Villedieu
Before the industrial revolution, poêliers in Villedieu forged and shaped copper pots completely by hand.
The importance of being Ernest Mauviel
This may be a controversial post: I’m questioning Mauviel’s account of its own history.
An interview with Jules Gouffé
I was fortunate enough recently to have the opportunity to sit down with Jules Gouffé, former head chef at the