cazalea
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Any Purists born with silver spoon in mouth?
This is too confusing! Thanks to relatives, we have 5 sets of silver and silver plate and they didn’t come with instructions. This is my favorite pattern but I can’t fathom what all the variations are for. Can you help me?
Cazalea
PS - I should have known better - I looked in the "other" silverware drawer and found the rest of these variations!
Any Purists born with silver spoon in mouth?
This is too confusing! Thanks to relatives, we have 5 sets of silver and silver plate and they didn’t come with instructions. This is my favorite pattern but I can’t fathom what all the variations are for. Can you help me? Cazalea PS - I should have known...
Start from the outside and work your way in!
That's all I remember from my dear mother's doomed attempts to teach me fine dining. Although, I rememeber a stately Colombian woman I worked for in a lab eons ago. She pulled aside a young spangles and showed me a picture of her gorgeous niece. "She's be...
You are not the only one, Spangles
I remember being at a Youth Camp on Catalina Island about 40 years ago, and a gentleman who was an aspiring rock musician played for us a song about "I used the wrong fork at my girlfriend's house last night, and now her mom won't let her date me anymore"...
Two simple solutions:
1. Eat only BBQ...only your hands and many napkins needed. 2. Learn to use chopsticks. I would have to ask my wife what to do with so many forks, etc. : )
That's a good reply but not what I was asking for
I remember many years ago I was a teaching assistant at university, and in a speech class I was teaching one student wanted to read a poem instead of a speech. OK, I said. He got up and recited his poem about the humble tortilla, which in Mexico he said s...
Can't find any silver chopsticks in my cabinet!
all I can muster is a box set maybe I bought in China 20+ years ago, and a few pairs in little sleeping bags (I'm sure there is a word for those sleeves) ...
Silver chopsticks
A nice set is available at Gump's in San Francisco. They make a fine engagement present. Park
Thanks for the tip
I see there are all kinds of chopsticks for sale on the Internet - even some solid silver of various weights. I think I might have to have some titanium ones to go with my wedding ring and my watches! Mike
Difficult to judge the sizes but I'll give it a go:
Top Pic, L to R: Top - Desert Knife; tea spoon; desert spoon; salad spoon; coffee spoon; soup spoon; table knife; Bottom: cake fork, salad / fish fork, desert fork; table fork (and then same in reverse) Bottom Pic, L to R: Salad serving spoon; Soup ladle;...
Well done!
Here is California oyster eating - roast in oven 10 minutes using silicone baking tray to preserve oyster essence, crack open with knife, use shell as both fork & spoon: She has been known to drink from the bottle, but prefers a white wine glass. ...
This is not question of born with a silverspoon, this is a question of culture! This is not USA compartible, not for fingerfood-artisten and fork in the rigth hand eaters.
Look at the picture please. I miss in your set a fishknife, the fork is there, 3th and 5th from left side The spoon on the left ist for a half Grapefruit, but the cook had to cut before with a knife. The second spoon goes with the first fork, for Dessert ...
Thanks!
My mother never bothered to instruct us on the proper use of all these forks (perhaps my mom was uncertain or busy with other things). But we did learn how to set the table! My grandmother used to play bridge with a lady named Bettina, who was like a godm...
Isn't the fish knife shown on second pic ...
... between butter and steak knives? Although, on the pic it appears as if the blade is bent upwards from the handle, which would be against a fish knife. How many of these are present? Marcus
I have been doing research, but got distracted by technicalities
I read about the factory in Connecticut, and how it was originally an English company but purchased from the founders when they died. I learned about the pattern that we have, the man who designed it in the Twenties, and the variety of pieces that are ava...
Mike a ruler pictured next to the pieces would help...
Also, love to see the back side for the makers mark, then i can tell you more... Or I shall come by with a book and can tell you exactly what you have over a glass of vino ;-) Cheers, Tim
Please Come!
No substitute for first-hand instruction - like the time you explained Mitch's watch to us, over a glass of wine. Mike ...
For some reason people once had so much wealth they needed to distinguish dinner utensils from lunch utensils.
So use the longer version in the evening.
The forks are hard...
The knives are easy; butter, fish, steak... The forks are harder.
