Kitchens with copper: The Breakers
The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, with a kitchen full of copper.
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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: 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.”
Cooking with a copper daubière
Congratulations! You’re the proud owner of one of the oddest pans in the French batterie de cuisine.
The great Parisian department stores
Three 19th-century department stores, three lines of custom copper cookware.
Cookware advice from 19th century England
Until you have spent some time online reading antique English cookbooks, my friend, you have not lived.
Ruthless pragmatism meets whimsical luxury: The brass duck press
When life hands you a dead duck, make canard à la rouennaise.
Nickel, the “perfect metal”
There was a time in France when nickel was touted as the ideal replacement for copper.
Antique vs. vintage vs. modern
A reader asked me a great question: what do I mean by “antique” and “vintage”?
The smiths and shops of Villedieu
After World War II, Villedieu rebuilt its copper industry — and flourished.
Copper by hand: Historical poêlerie in Villedieu
Before the industrial revolution, poêliers in Villedieu forged and shaped copper pots completely by hand.
Mauviel’s Masterpieces: Copper at the Grands Magasins Du Louvre, Paris
There are copper pans, and then there are copper pans.
Store stamps
Sometimes vintage copper is stamped not by its maker, but by the store that sold it. This page is an
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