If you’ve been itching to add a new pan to your cast iron collection or simply to find a project to distract you from the impending heat, it’s time to embark on a cast iron road trip across the Southeast. We hit the road to explore bits of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia and found that, oftentimes, it’s the off-the-beaten-path destinations that turn out to be the true treasure troves.
Home to antiques shops and flea markets by the dozen, small Southern towns are fertile grounds for cast iron finds. These pans are what many of our parents and grandparents cooked in, and thankfully, many of those pieces (like the footed kettle your grandmother simmered beans in or the thick-walled
