Tuesday, January 18, 2010

Lisa Ackerman of Orange, California sends this along.

Dear Miss Manners:

What is the best way to eat grapefruit?

Gentle Reader:

Carefully, if at all. The grapefruit is a particularly vicious piece of work with a sour disposition, just lying in wait to give someone a good squirt in the eye. If the grapefruit sections have not been loosened with a grapefruit knife before serving, or if you are not armed with a pointed grapefruit spoon, give up. It will get you before you get it.

Beth Shaut of the Carder Steuben Glass shop adds how the “Grapefruit” can be used for shrimp.

The Shrimp was laid upon the crushed ice and the insert used as the sauce. Most pieces were used for multiply purposes.

Next, Stephen Gleissner Curator at the Wichita Museum send along this information of the post Steuben dish that was in blue.

The Museum has the classic Dreves olive dish in blue.

See the attached link to our website:

http://wichitaartmuseum.org/acm/index.php?action=Search&k=steuben+olive+dish&submit=Go

While there, take a look at their entire collection of Steuben

http://wichitaartmuseum.org/cossman.html

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