calsfoundation@cals.org
August 16, 2009
When the state legislature passed Act 476 of 2001, the Dutch oven became the state’s Official State Historic Cooking Vessel. The oven was brought to Arkansas in early territorial days and, by the mid-1800s, was in widespread use. Expert John Ragsdale is shown here demonstrating Dutch oven cooking at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View (Stone County) in 1988.