Iron & Fire: A Cast Iron Holiday

The holidays belong in cast iron. In this holiday companion to Iron & Fire, Dr. Christopher D. Pritchard, D.D. puts the whole season — Thanksgiving through Christmas — into the skillet and the Dutch oven: slow holiday mornings with sticky pecan cinnamon rolls and apple cider doughnuts, starters that stay hot while the crowd gathers, a prime rib finished in a screaming-hot skillet, cornbread dressing baked in the same pan the cornbread was born in, and cobblers and puddings that come to the table still warm in the iron.

Fifty recipes, plus Chris's plain-spoken strategy for beating holiday oven traffic with a skillet, a Dutch oven, and a plan. No pretension, no preciousness — just real food, real technique, and the truth every holiday cook knows: it's hot, it's plenty, and everybody's at the table.