A while back I wrote about some of my favorite kitchen
things and plumb forgot a very important item. It used to be easy to find a
brown pottery tea pot, even at the five and ten. When my last one bit the dust,
back in the early seventies, there was not one to be found. When Polly made her
first trip to Europe, which was going to include England
(the Brits are very clear about not
being in Europe which is a place they got to on holiday), I asked her if she
could bring me back one if she happened to check out a Woolworth’s in London
What she brought back was not a five and dime tea pot. It’s
a beautiful Derby Stoneware pot with a light blue lining. It makes great tea. I
bought it a tea cozy at a Woolworth’s in Scunthorpe
in about ten years ago. That’s another thing that was hard to find over here. Just
about the tie that cozy became threadbare, my friend jay Bell
My shiny brown pot is now almost forty years old and looks
like new. I think with all the trendy kitchen shops now tucked into every mall,
one can probably find a brown pottery pot (not china, but pottery), but I treasure
this one.
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