from The New Yorker

The Myth of the Cast-Iron Pan

By Jiji Lee and Laura Mishkin

Ancient Grecians reaching in a cardboard box labeled fragile.

Birth

A cast-iron pan is forged in the flames of a volcano, by the mighty god Hephaestus. When the pan is the color of obsidian, and its weight equals that of a mountain, it is carefully placed in a cardboard box, and is ready for shipping and handling.

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