Saturday, November 21, 2009

Table Service

from anthropologie

i love this idea...antique silverware by the pound! From Napa Style
but I do need compote bowls! I do!

Laguiole steak knives from here

I imagine after the "first Thanksgiving", all those folks sat down to share a meal, and the chicks were wishing they had better tools than boat spikes to eat their oysters. After our dinner the other night we realized we had forgotten to ever acquire proper entertaining tools known to modern man as the "table service". We've collected many things over time but we never got smart things like real silverware and dessert plates. We don't even have a proper cake server. It was sad to serve the lovely desserts our guests brought, stilton and port and cheesecake and figs off of teacup saucers and paper napkins. Mom was right. It was like not having clean underwear at the hospital.

Now I have it in my head that I want cockle forks and salt cellars and berry spoons and fish forks. In the spirit of impending days of entertaining and large sit-down dinners, I will find time to give thanks. But today, I found some time to want. Who's with me?
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12 comments:

  1. MarieNovember 21, 2009 at 7:53 PM

    ...and saucespoons. And those beautiful little knives and forks for fruit after dinner.

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  2. MarieNovember 21, 2009 at 7:54 PM

    Hey - I just digested that. Dessert was lovely, and a saucer can be a fine plate.

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  3. Bonbon OiseauNovember 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM

    oh yes marie, it's true...I know...but it feels like time for real dessert plates! (and knives and forks for fruit after dinner...)

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  4. CindyNovember 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    we want so we can give. yeah, that works ;)!

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  5. UnknownNovember 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    I love everything it' so refined, the colour of the plates is wonderfull

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  6. alexkellerNovember 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    i have dessert plates and a few of those little fish forks. but i've never used the fish forks.

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  7. bigBANG studioNovember 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    Darling Deb- your truly are a girl after my own heart. I LOVE those Nathalie Lete ceramics for Anfro- I got the set of Paris-themed desert plates for my little sister last Christmas. They are most marvelous.

    I *wish* I were on the east coast for your holiday soirees coming up! I wear my necklace all the time. I'm obsessed with it.

    xo

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  8. Jen Laceda | Milk GuidesNovember 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    I had dinner at a Quebec restaurant the other night with Laguiole steak knives. Everyone was making a fuss about those owl-logos!

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  9. erinNovember 23, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    i don't know. cheesecake and figs? i think i'd deal with messy fingers for a little bit of that goodness! xo.

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  10. ElizabethNovember 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    The white plates in assorted designs from anthropologie are my favorites--very classy. And a prettier steak knife I never did see!

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  11. AmandaNovember 25, 2009 at 11:54 AM

    I lub my salt cellars. That's all I'm saying.

    (Happy T-Day, Bonbon.)

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  12. prashantNovember 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM

    it feels like time for real dessert plates!

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