There was a time when no respectable casserole or Jell-O salad was served in anything but a brightly colored piece of Pyrex glassware — and every cupboard was stacked high with the functional mixing ...

For the longest time, my mother has talked about how she’s been hunting local Goodwill and thrift stores, plus tag, yard and garage sales for vintage Pyrex pieces. She’s not big into displaying them.

My Aunt Ruth gave me a set of pea-green Pyrex nesting bowls in 1968 as a wedding gift. I still have two, one of which holds 3 1/2 quarts, the other a pint. My ex-husband got the midsize bowl in the ...