“My parents were married in 1947. They got the skillet as a wedding present, and it has been used continuously. My mother would make a pineapple upside-down cake in it. In the summer, she always cooked bass, catfish my father would catch. She made biscuits or cornbread with almost every single meal, cooked in the skillet. Like a lot of the Greatest Generation, my parents endured great challenges in their life: the Great Depression, World War II, my father had polio back in the ’50s. But they came out of that stronger. A cast iron skillet becomes seasoned with age. It almost gets better over time. The skillet to me is a symbol of something that, in its own way, endures.”
ROBERT DYE, MEMPHIS
Mr. Dye’s mother, JoNell Dye, used the skillet for more than 70 years. She died in May, at 93 years old.
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