Hundreds turn up at Hampshire industrial estate to grab cut-price cast-iron cookware
One hundred years after two Belgian industrialists first “cracked the code” to enamelling cast-iron and created the first Le Creuset cocotte, the highly covetable cookware brand continues to grace the middle-class kitchen.
With prices reflecting its status, however, fans are always on the lookout for bargains for the colourful range, which is still made in the original foundry established in 1925 in the village of Fresnoy-le-Grand, about two hours north of Paris.
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