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I don't have it yet, but I can tell you what I want.

Grandma's food mill. The food mill that has made me homemade applesauce since I was born.

My mother has a set of Thanksgiving china that she has been collecting for me over the years. It started when I was a baby and now is formal service for 12! This year I am having the first thanksgiving at my house. My first chance to use my china!

I have my dad's dishes from college, which included the blender that my grandparents had when he was a kid.

I also have my step dad's dutch oven.

Hand me down kitchenware is awesome.

My Cuisinart was my grandma's, given to me by my mother for my b.day last year. It's amazing, a real tank of a machine. Works like brand new and the blades are still perfectly sharp. It's been put to good use in many different ways in the past year. Looking forward to the kitchen where I will have enough counter space to leave it out all the time - I will use it even more then.

I have a cast iron dutch oven that was my husband's grandmother's; I use it only for corn bread and cheesecake.
it's velvety soft on the inside from years of use, and pretty much naturally non-stick...

when I got my first apartment my mom passed on a lot of her spare kitchen pots, pans, and utensils. I have upgraded most of the pots and pans since then, but I still use the wooden spoons everyday. they fit my hand perfectly and I remember using them as I was growing up and learning to cook from my mom.

i have a potato masher a 90 years old from my mom, grand, great grand and before. the wooden handle is worn and burnished from decades of mashing spuds.

My mom has my great-grandfather's beetel-nut box in India(looks much like a recipe box). I've had my eye on it forever now. Next time i might mistakenly toss it into my suitcase ;)

I have my grandma's cast-iron skillet. I love it beyond reason. Every time I cook in it, I think about her.