The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pan in Your Kitchen

Learn how to season cast iron, clean cast iron, and cook 90 tantalizing recipes in your cast iron skillet. This cookbook aims to show modern cooks how this inexpensive cast iron tool is the best pan in their kitchen. Fusing new and traditional recipes and gathering farm-fresh produce and ingredients, the authors show cooks how to make delicious food in this versatile skillet. Recipes include: Succulent Seared Pork Chops with Plum-Mustard-Cornichon Sauce; Dutch Baby (puffed pancake with lemon and powdered sugar); Grilled Prosciutto-Wrapped Radicchio; and Warm Pear Upside Down Cake.

Sharon Kramis, a protege of James Beard and restaurant consultant for 30 years, is the coauthor of Northwest Bounty. Her daughter, Julie Kramis Hearne, is the owner of a Seattle-based chain of panini shops. Both live in Seattle.