When two enthusiastic home cooks split up, dividing the kitchen gear is more emotional than equitable.
“We’re only making it official for the All-Clad,” I joked to friends and family at my backyard engagement party on a balmy Midwestern May evening in 2012. Everybody thinks they need a full cookware set when they get married. I was no exception. I had just turned 30, and though I was getting paid to develop recipes and write about food, I hadn’t really hit my groove as a home cook.
25-quart Le Creuset Dutch oven my late aunt Susie gave us for our first anniversary—a dramatic red showstopper perfect for roasting pork shoulders and braising short ribs for a crowd. But in between the grand gestures and giant hunks of meat, I desperately craved the small, everyday displays of affection that happened when no one was looking: quiet declarations of love, quick kisses in the kitchen, eye contact that let me know he enjoyed my company.
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