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Serving It Up: Family Dining With Style

After the food is prepared it typically goes from pot to plate. Individually plating each dish has its own charms, but let’s look at a more sharing way to serve – family-style dining (check out this video on setting the table for family style by Emily Post) using the ideal vessels: Serving Platters. Family-style dining is fast becoming increasingly common and carry great fringe benefits for all at the table! From Sur La Table check out these lovely oval and rectangular collections of serving ware. They are timeless and can be used for both casual and more formal dining. Not only does plating the dishes in a help-yourself way, it saves time, encourages a more conversational dining experience and it looks great on the table. Whether for two or three people or a family of four or more, either way, this is a great way to serve meals. There are many kinds, style, designs and shapes to choose from, but timeless classics like plain white will get endless use, make the food look great and go with any decor.

04-2010


	Book: Laying the Elegant Table

Yellow Flowers & The Daffodil

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The color of flowers has meaning. Yellow flowers are associated with sunshine and joy. When you think of spring, the daffodil comes to mind. Yellow flowers bloom earliest which gives them their association with spring; blooming when they do because light flowers, blooms earliest. Adding yellow flowers to your home and spaces brings in energy and light because they reflect their radiant color filling the space. Bringing in yellow blowers is to bring in happiness and new beginnings. When grey days linger, this is the perfect time to bring in those first signs of spring to lift the spirits and add warmth. It’s hard not to smile when you see a bright yellow bunch of flowers!

Daffodils: A Brief History

The ancestral daffodils were from around the Mediterranean Sea areas near Spain, Portugal and the Middle East. Some of the earliest records mentioning daffodils were in about 200/300 BC , and the first writings about daffodils were in about 6th century AD. The daffodil was a typically a forgotten wild plant until around 1629 when a group of Englishmen plucked them out of the weeds and planted them in their gardens placing the forgotten plant into focus once again. Bring them into your garden; watch this video to show you how!

Listen To Jeremy Irons Read “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth.

03-2010

Pearls – History and Beauty

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The Pearl. The oldest known gem. This pure, unique and everlastingly beautiful symbol of perfection. For centuries the pearl (in Latin which literally means ‘unique’) was considered the most valuable of gems. There is a fragment of the oldest piece of pearl, found in the sarcophagus of a Persian princess dated in 520 BC on display in the Louvre in Paris. In classical Rome there were restrictions on who could wear pearls. Throughout Europe pearls were worn by both sexes and adorned their clothing. However, in the 13^th and 14^th centuries there were also laws regarding who could wear them; forbidding teachers and lawyers from wearing fringes or chains with pearls. Pearls are made by nature, and in the 1930’s cultured pearls arrived making pearls more affordable and available than ever before. While there was initial resistance, one designer most notably embraced them: Coco Chanel. She made the gems a part of her designs. Availability has not diminished the image of this great timeless classic.