Recent Musings. . .

There’s really no point in having a tea party without the appropriate bowls and plates. When I was a kid in the Bahamas, my rich pal and I used to have underwater tea parties, using shells for our teacups. This was sufficient until her mom had lunch laid out on her Hermes gold dishes. This meant nothing to me until she told me not to scrape the plate as it was inlaid with real gold (as were the knives and forks.) I asked her why she gave us such expensive plates when paper would do out by the pool, and she replied that one should never, ever, serve on inferior china. My mother, on the other hand, reserved her fine china for special occasions, and this had always made sense to me until that point. I asked for breakfast on the Herend china, and she just laughed. Therein lay the inspiration for using shells – after all, who was going to stop us from scraping them? The clams?