http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-candle-snuffer http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-candle-snuffer#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:31:22 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-candle-snuffer I have several items in silver that many folks would categorize as unnecessary. I would wholeheartedly agree with them. But this isn’t a post on one of life’s necessities, period. If that bothers you, or if you are of the same ilk as Mylai Dimaculangan, my by now infamous fishpan detractor, or if you felt close to regurgitating your dinner reading my post on antique sterling silver grape scissors, then do not read the rest of this post. Fair warning was given. This post is about a silver and wood candle snuffer that usually emerges from our cabinets around the Christmas holidays. With a conical head made of sterling silver, it elegantly suffocates the flames of your tapered candles at the end of a festive meal. I know, roll your eyes all you want, but you don’t really need earrings nor a cellphone other than the PHP2,000 minimalist version, and I would wager that most of you probably have both. This is a rather special silver table doodad for me as the length of the stick is an unusually long at 16 inches…]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-candle-snuffer/feed 18 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-grape-scissor http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-grape-scissor#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:08:44 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=420 This spectacular pair of sterling silver grape scissors was a gift from Santa last Christmas. It is now a treasured possession and if I hadn’t left instructions that I should be cremated when I keel over, it would be one of those things that I would want buried with me for some grave digger to discover 500 years hence and have him say “hmmm, this dude knew how to live...” or worse, “geez, he must have had really tough nose hairs…” heeheehee… I jest, of course. But seriously, why would anyone yearn for grape scissors??? I’m not sure, but maybe the fact that they are such single-use implements? That they are usually beautifully designed? That they actually serve the purpose of cutting grapes from a stubborn bunch easily? It seems so old-fashioned, but in fact it is so brilliant to have at a modern dinner table…it always spurs the conversation down an interesting genteel path… perhaps one can explain it as those who admire a brilliant vintage car instead of the raciest Lamborghini… At any rate, I can’t explain it but I did want to show it off…these scissors are beautifully designed in a weighty sterling silver and manufactured by Tiffany & Co in the 1800’s… They look great on a cheese and fruit platter, particularly when candlelit. We will be serving a lot more grapes this year!]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/silver-grape-scissor/feed 24