Science Archaeology Bronze Age cauldrons show we’ve always loved meat, dairy, and fancy cookware Family feasts were the way to eat 5,000 years ago. Laura Baisas Aug 18, 2023 11:00 AM EDT ...

Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze Age indicates that the cookware was used to make sausages and ferment milk.

While some “Harry Potter” fans might want to get their hands on a cast-iron cauldron, Le Creuset’s new cookware collection may be more within reach.

We could cook pretty much everything with those pans, because they were easily adaptable for tomato soup, blueberry pancakes, steamed crabs, fried rice or any other hankering we might have.