[Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?

[Jim Guthrie]

Let me point out that our original summer house in Maine had a iron coal stove. 
One had to get the coal going in the morning just to make a pot of coffee.

I'm sure most of us had parents or grandparents who learned to cook on a coal 
(or even wood!) burning stove. And I can tell you the food my mother prepared on 
the coal stove was excellent!

And in most of the world, such stoves are still common -- but in a rich nation 
like the US., we can debate glass tops vs electric vs gas burners and think 
nothing of it, and even suggest the "wrong" choice indicates lack of interest in 
good cooking! Sheesh.

Cheers,
Jim