A double page Netherton Spread: Nigel Slater, The Observer
Each piece of cookware, hand-made in our workshops, is imbued with the pride of each individual who had a part in creating it. The workshop team is small and by the time your pan leaves the building, practically everyone will have added their contribution, spinning, riveting, oiling assembling and packing. And at each stage a little more pride is added.
So when we send them out into the world, it is with the hope that they are going to good homes, where they will be much loved and well used. And as far as we can tell, that is exactly what happens and when we receive photos of our products in their new homes, it’s like getting a good school report. Like proud parents, the team beams from ear to ear, backs are patted and a warm sense of satisfaction settles like sunlight through the skylights.
And when our cookware finds a new home in a food writer’s pantry and the photos of it being lovingly used are not sent to us, but published in a national newspaper, where thousands of people will see it, then that feeling of pride swells immeasurably. And so the atmosphere in the workshops this coming week will be buoyed by a double page spread of Netherton cookware lovingly used by Nigel Slater and beautifully photographed by Jonathan Lovekin.
We are, of course, tempted by Nigel’s recipes; his pie dish full of ham hock cauliflower cheese had us scribbling a midweek shopping list and the prospector pan of fried rice with greens and peanuts had us emptying the larder and the fridge.
Do please send us your own photos and stories of how you learned about Netherton Foundry, where you bought your pan and how you use it. Let the team know their work is in good hands. Email us at sales@netherton-foundry.co.uk
