Joyce Chen J90-0704 6-Quart Stoneware Chinese Cooking Pot, Black

Joyce Chen's slogan "Eastern Cookware for the Western Kitchen," reflects her focus on providing high-quality, versatile tools and products that have Asian flair, but can be used in a western kitchen. This Black 6 qt Stoneware Chinese Cooking Pot is made for one pot meals. This pot is oven, stove and microwave safe and retains heat for an extended period of time. In it you can steam vegetables, cook stew, make soup, slow cook meat, and bake casseroles. Foods prepared in clay pots are not only delicious but healthy. Essential nutrients and vitamins are retained through the enclosed moist cooking environment. Today, Joyce Chen Products come from all over the Pacific Rim to bring the best of Asia to you. Joyce Chen opened her first restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1958. The restaurant flourished, and in 1973 a larger Cambridge restaurant was opened. Chen also began writing Chinese cookbooks and in the 1970s began hosting a cooking show on public television. She found that the selection and quality of Chinese cookware in America didn't live up to her high standards¿ so she developed her own.