Four pots and pans you really need to cook up a feast

MY FAMILY moved often while I was growing up, living in small flats and even occasionally on a sailboat, so our entire kitchen inventory – including a saucepan, frying pan, stockpot and wok – could fit in one box tucked into the back of our Chevy hatchback.

We could cook pretty much everything with those pans, since they were easily adaptable for tomato soup, blueberry pancakes, steamed crabs, fried rice or any other hankering we might