East Fork makes and sells contemporary ceramic dinnerware made by hand with regional materials and a lot of integrity in the Blue Ridge mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.

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Juice Cup

Color

Drinking Glasses & Cups

These hand-blown rocks glasses make us wanna stir up a G&T, slip into a linen sun dress, and lounge barefoot in a hammock on the porch—no matter what time of day.

Handblown Rocks Glass

Tabletop & Dining

A note about Borosilicate glass: Borosilicate glass is a premium glass used to make vessels appropriate for everyday use. Unlike other glass, it does not crack under extreme temperature changes. For the Luisa collection, we recommend hand-washing with a nonabrasive sponge for greatest longevity of its hue. Borosilicate glass is made up of about 15% boron trioxide, an ingredient that changes the behavior of glass and makes it thermal shock resistant. This allows the glass to resist extreme changes in temperature—borosilicate glass has the ability to go straight from a freezer to an oven without cracking and withstand temperatures of up to 932 °F.  And so, this glassware can be used for both hot and cold beverages.
R&D uses borosilicate glass made by the company that invented it in 1893! Using borosilicate glass leaves a low carbon footprint as it is made from naturally abundant materials and do not require excessive mining.  If handled with care, borosilicate glass will last a lifetime.

Luisa Acqua Glasses

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Drink & Glassware

We often recommend the Bitty Bowl for holding condiments like soy sauce and vinegar at the table, but let’s be real—this is a way better choice!
Established in 1899, Hirota Glass functions as a collaborative of artists all working in traditional Japanese handcrafted glass styles such as Edo Kiriko and Edo Glass.  This soy cruet was designed by artist and company director, Tatsuaki Hirota, using the Aburidashi Technique. This involves the shaping of glass in a patterned mold to create opalescent-colored designs on the glass surface.

Soy Sauce Cruet

We love this kitchen tool not only for its perfect form and function, but also because its makers resemble our crew here at East Fork in so many ways. MUJUN works closely with traditional craftspeople in Japan to make kitchen essentials rooted deeply in historical forms, but redesigned for modern living. Use it to make fresh spice blends to season meats and vegetables, to make togarashi to put on rice, to crush peanuts for atop stir-fry, and so much more.

Japanese Mortar & Pestle

Why not have a kitchen tool in the shape of a bird? This crane-shaped grater is cut from a sheet of strong, hand-pounded copper and has sharp, tin-coated, individually raised teeth for an optimal grating surface. Perfect for ginger, garlic, spices, and veggies.

Crane Copper Grater

An East Fork Favorite —this gorgeous flatware set is made from Industrial brass in the Lue Brass workshop, run by Ruka Kikuchi. Kikuchi learned brass work under a seven year apprenticeship with his father, a master craftsman. This set patinas richly overtime or can be easily polished to shine with a little lemon juice and salt. Each piece nests into one another and can be securely fastened together with a brass clip.

Stacking Brass Flatware

Flatware

This beautiful cookbook demystifies Japanese clay pot cooking with easy-to-follow, traditional and contemporary recipes written for meals in the Mushi Nabe, Kamado-San, Hakeme, and other Donabe styles.
Our faves includes the tatsoi and blue crab rice, steamed green tea cakes, and Hokkaido-style Seafood Hot Pot, but we haven't had anything from it that wasn't delicious.

Donabe Cookbook

This pan does all the same tricks at your grandma's cast iron, but its matte black enamel coating makes it easier to clean and care for—making it pretty much indestructible. Universal lid fits with all other Crane cast iron wares, too. It will gradually “burn in” as it's used and take on a brownish patina.

Cast Iron Frying Pan

A fun way to upgrade your stainless steel cutlery is a little pop of color. Get match-matchy with Night Swim all around, or mix and match with the rest of our glazes. We love that they kind of go with everything.

Italian Flatware

These Maplewood Nesting Bowls were turned by the Holland Bowl Mill, near the shores of Lake Michigan just for East Fork. The 9-inch bowl makes a great bowl for a vegetable side or a salad for 1. The 12-inch bowl is your perfect 2-5 person family salad bowl. The 15-inch bowl is the one you'll bring to a dinner party or fill with your farmer's market haul. We love them for their functionality and easy, breezy, no-pretense beauty. One of the few commercial producers of turned wood bowls left in the country, the Holland Bowl Mill is a true gem of American craftsmanship and industry. They've been at it proudly since 1924.

Dressing your salad with oil based dressings in the bowl will help keep your wood supple. If you notice your wood drying out, give it a little rub with flax seed oil, bees wax or carnuba oil.

Maplewood Salad Bowls

Size

Serving Bowls

Ain't it cute?! Soup tastes better slurped from a wooden spoon. Use it for everything from bisques to stews to ramen.

Wooden Soup Spoon

This pan does all the same tricks at your grandma's cast iron, but its matte black enamel coating makes it easier to clean and care for—making it pretty much indestructible. It will gradually “burn in” as it's used and will take on a brownish patina.

Cast Iron Sauté Pan

Hirota Glass has been in business since 1899. Today it functions as a collaborative of artists all working in traditional Japanese handcrafted glass styles such as Edo Kiriko and Edo Glass. This beautiful piece was designed by and hand-blown by artist Yukari Hirono. It’s a goes-with-every-space sort of staple you’ll actually use and wanna show off.

Classy Glass Teapot

A good soy sauce, vinegar, quality rice, konbu, bonito flakes, and sesame paste provide the foundation for Japanese cooking. With these ingredients always in your pantry, a little fish, fresh shiitake, broccoli, sweet potato, chard, tofu or eggs becomes an elevated, wholesome, truly special meal.

Mitsuboshi Soy Sauce

Simple and enduring white oak cutting boards from Asheville woodworker and really-great-guy, Andy McFate.
Care: Wash with soap and warm water. Condition with mineral oil, beeswax, or any butcher block conditioner every four months.

White Oak Cutting Board

The perfect pot for Sunday stews, soups, and braises. This pan does all the same tricks as your grandma's dutch oven, but with an elegant matte black enamel coating. Easy to clean and indestructible. It will gradually “burn in” as it's used and take on a brownish patina.

Cast Iron Casserole

Decision Fatigue!! Say, "I love you but I trust you more than I trust myself to decide what color pottery you want," with an East Fork gift card.
You'll receive an e-Gift Card to your inbox that you can then print and deliver to your giftee tucked inside a love note, or you can simply forward to the e-mail to your giftee's inbox. They'll be able to click the link and start shopping!
This digital gift certificate is redeemable in our online shop as well as either of our brick & mortar locations.  All they need is their unique digital gift code that's included in the confirmation email. Live in Asheville or Atlanta and want to give a gift card to another local buddy? You can purchase physical gift cards in both locations.

Digital Gift Card

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Our favorite go-to broth for quick and easy weeknight meals. Dashi is the quintessential broth for Japanese cooking. Made from high quality kombu (Japanese kelp,) katsuobushi (fermented and smoked tuna,) and yame gyokuro powdered green tea. No one will be the wiser that you didn't make it from scratch.

Excellent Dashi

Life hack: a few grates of fresh ginger in your tea is a game-changer. Make your everyday cooking tasks a lot more delightful with tools that are a lot more elegant.  This grater is cut from a sheet of strong, hand-pounded copper with sharp, tin-coated, individually raised teeth for an optimal grating surface. Perfect for ginger, garlic, spices, and veggies.

Copper Grater

The alpha and omega of seasoning, but better. Pinch a bit on your soft-boiled egg and transport to heaven. Clean tasting, umami salt is perfect for finishing dishes— or throw some in a bitty bowl as table salt and call it a day.
We love the smokey version. Bull’s Bay smokes their flakey sea salt with aged oak bourbon barrels passed down from the folks at Bittermilk. It’s a little sweet, a little smokey, and good on everything from sautéed greens to a medium rare porterhouse.

Carolina Flake Salt

Flavor

“We remain committed to nothing but sesame seeds. We would like to bring smiles to many people through sesame.”
Etsuji Wada is the 4th generation owner of this centuries-old producer of sesame paste. Etsuji Wada himself has been standing over the kettles, roasting the seeds to golden perfection for over 40 years.
Hot Tip: Don’t put it in the fridge! We promise it won’t spoil—just make sure you use it, and always use a clean, food-free spoon to scoop. Just give it a good stir before drizzling.

Organic Golden Sesame Paste

"With The Palestinian Table, Reem Kassis gracefully demonstrates the power of food to transcend the political divisions that are, too often, all we know of a place like Palestine. Reading and cooking from this essential book - a thoughtful collection of great recipes, historical and cultural insights, and beautiful photographs - will move you closer to understanding this complex, fascinating part of the world." — Anthony Bourdain

The Palestinian Table

A note about Borosilicate glass: Borosilicate glass is a premium glass used to make vessels appropriate for everyday use.  Unlike other glass, it does not crack under extreme temperature changes, making it suitable for putting in the dishwasher. Borosilicate glass is made up of about 15% boron trioxide, an ingredient that changes the behavior of glass and makes it thermal shock resistant. This allows the glass to resist extreme changes in temperature—borosilicate glass has the ability to go straight from a freezer to an oven without cracking and withstand temperatures of up to 932 °F.  And so, this glassware can be used for both hot and cold beverages.
R&D uses borosilicate glass made by the company that invented it in 1893! Using borosilicate glass leaves a low carbon footprint as it is made from naturally abundant materials and do not require excessive mining.  If handled with care, borosilicate glass will last a lifetime.

Velasca Vino Glasses

Luisa Vino Glasses

Shichimi togarashi, or simply “shichimi,” is a Japanese 7-spice blend developed by Tokyo’s Yagenbori herb shop in 1625. Originally sold for its medicinal properties, the seven spices are intentionally balanced: use everywhere from soup and noodle dishes to grilled fish and chicken…and save the super cute packaging.

Yuzu Shichimi Togarashi

Edna Lewis was born in 1916 in Freetown, Virginia, a farming community founded after the Civil War by formerly enslaved people, her grandfather among them. Over the course of her life, Miss Lewis (as she was always known) was awarded nearly every culinary honor possible and made the case for black Southern cooking as the foundation for our national cuisine.
Part memoir, part cookbook: Miss Lewis tenderly walks us through cooking with the seasons and encourages us to savor the particular delight of cooking close to the land. “Taste of Country Cooking” is a kitchen essential from a culinary legend.

The Taste Of Country Cooking

Hard to pinpoint the best thing about this dreamy smelling soy candle in a reusable East Fork vessel, but we'd have to say it's the lingering earthy scent that billows around after blowing it out. Or that once it's burned out you can stash your pencils, q-tips, or silverware for a crowd in it.