About a million years ago, I worked as a manager at a high-end cooking gadgets and-then-some store. Let’s just say it was a hyphenated name and it’s home base was San Francisco and they produce these catalogs that we all drool over every time they hit our mailboxes with a thud. Yeah, I think you know who I mean!
Anyway, they had a small collection of Le Creuset dishware and I was always completely obsessed with it. It was heavy as heck, you couldn’t ever destroy it without really trying, and not only would it look amazing in your kitchen, it would make you a better cook! Okay maybe not that last part, but did I mention that it was really, really pretty?!
For a time, I had this teakettle until it had a rather unfortunate accident and was actually ruined (the plastic handle melted onto the ceramic cook top), so it was not salvageable! I love anything white (I’m obsessed, really) but I had purchased the teakettle in the color Dune (a nice graduated off-white) because of course they hadn’t yet issued it in White.
Image courtesy of Williams-Sonoma (hee, hee).
Fast forward a few more years and we are walking through Bloomingdale’s (!) in Chicago on a long weekend for our anniversary in 2009. We had actually stopped in to test coffee machines as a possible college graduation present for our oldest. So after trying out the coffee (they have a free coffee-trial bar!) we were on our way out and I spotted this amazing dishware.
Image courtesy of John Lewis.
I stopped in my tracks and stared! Le Creuset. In the most beautiful blue I’ve ever seen. In the exact shade I plan to use in our beachy Long Island kitchen with exposed old-wood beams and sun-washed light. With stainless steel knobs! They only had 4 pieces (the color is exclusive to Bloomingdale’s, well in the US), but I found this store (in the UK), that just started delivering to the US. Lucky, lucky, lucky! Of course it would be even luckier if I happen to also win the lottery! Somehow though, I hope these will be arriving at my door in the future!
Image courtesy of John Lewis.
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