Hammer & Hearth

Historian and award-winning writer Sara Dahmen is the only known female coppersmith building copper cookware in America. She lives with her husband and three children on a mini-farm in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan, where she restores vintage copperware or designs new pieces using tools and methods from the 1700 and 1800s. Her book, <em>Copper, Iron and Clay</em>, discusses how cookware is made, but also touches on cooking and using historical recipes in modern life. With a passion for preserving historic trades, craft, lost knowledge and kitchen remedies, Sara’s notebooks are always brimming with a nod to the past that are still relevant to today.