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The venerable cast iron skillet can be used as a braising dish, frying pan or baking dish for making foods such as Pastel de Choclo, a Bolivian-style corn pie.

As interest continues to grow nationwide in all things Southern food - restaurants, chefs, cookbooks - there's a "natural curiosity" about the humble yet iconic cast-iron skillet, says Virginia Willis, the Atlanta-based authority on the region's cooking.

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