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These cute cactus cupcakes are a lot easier to handle than their prickly look-alikes. Chocolate cake is baked in terra-cotta pots and then topped with cookie crumb dirt and a fudgy, chocolate-filled ...

At first glance, the humble terra cotta garden pot isn't anything special. It's been around for thousands of years, used for pottery, roofing, bricks, even sculpture (see the famous warriors and ...

Terra cotta cooking vessels. Cooking in terra cotta connects you to a culinary tradition thousands of years old and disseminated by the world’s grandmothers. Be it a wood-fired fish stew simmering in ...

The handsome Spanish cazuelas, Moroccan tagines and other Mediterranean clay pots I've been finding as I poke around cookware stores have refueled my fascination with cooking in clay. Their luminous ...

If you’ve been gardening for more than a season or two, you probably have a stack of terra cotta pots with a little patina. They just look better that way. Here are some ideas for taking a raw, orange ...

The warm color of terra cotta is so inviting and grounding that it's no wonder the fired clay material dating back to ancient times is still a mainstay in the modern home and garden. This baked clay ...

Paula Wolfert of Sonoma has been collecting clay pots for more than 50 years. Known for coaxing recipes out of grandmothers all over the Mediterranean, the cookbook author has a story to tell about ...