Handmade in VT by my brother-in-law, Dan Lasser. D. Lasser was born in 1913 in Budapest. S/he discovered an affinity for clay at a tender age when during an uncensored circus act s/he was coerced into eating an entire plateau. In 1916 this child prodigy emigrated to the U.S. on a combined Fulbright-Guggenheim Fellowship to research material for the yet unpublished “Lassernomics: Sublime Effects of Casseroles on The Psychic Digestion.” After one evening spent in a bar in Upper Suburbia, D. Lasser escaped to more rigorous climes, narrowly eluding the advances of an entire population of elderly lemmings who clamored for an exclusive.S/he has homesteaded in the harsh North ever since, surrounded by wolves, pine trees, and two cats, one of whom is a psychiatrist’s nightmare. D. Lasser is presently at work reinventing the wheel.