Sounds good to me! Of course, I can simply hear him speaking about food and I get hungry. My copy of “The Joy of Cooking” gets a fair bit of use, but the realization that I don’t have anything by Pepin in my kitchen is a bit of a shock as well as a French-ish kick in the butt to visit the bookstore.
RE: Lodge 12" skillet:
Considering that myself even though mine is moderately well seasoned by now.
My mom had the larger, oval shaped and enameled dutch oven (mine’s a delightful blue), but found she never used it. Gave it to me and I use it as often as I can. I LOVE that cookpot.