A taste for terrific tools By KATHLEEN PURVIS, McClatchy Newspapers
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Warning: Brand names will be dropped in the telling of this story. If you're not comfortable with that, you won't be comfortable with Karen Cooley.
The owner of the cookware shop Cooking Uptown in Elizabeth, N.C., is all about the names. And if she doesn't like a product, she'll say that, too.
Cooley isn't afraid to cook and tell.
Every time we visit Cooley's shop, in a converted uniform factory at Seventh Street and Hawthorne Avenue, we find ourselves wondering: With all of this to choose from, what does she take home to use herself?
It turned out to be a big question. Cooley really has three kitchens. There's the one at the shop, where she uses local chefs to teach cooking classes.
There's the one at her home in Carmel Woods, N.C., where the cabinets and counters are stocked with Scanpan nonstick skillets, Arc 42 pots and a cobalt-blue Viking mixer.
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