The Dutch Oven Cookbook: 60 recipes for one-pot cooking

60 Dutch oven recipes for casseroles, braises, pastas, rice dishes and more.

A Dutch oven is an iconic piece of kitchenware, highly prized by all cooks from beginners to professionals. A thick-walled, seasoned cast-iron cooking pot, as to why it’s called a Dutch oven, no one knows for sure. The most popular theory is that the 17th century Dutch were the first to use clay molds in favor of casting metal in sand, and this enabled smoother finishes for iron cookware. Regardless of its origins, ...