On the other side it's all crystal dishes and bowls.
Three tables stacked like sumptuous bunk beds brim with porcelain and crystal dishes bearing savories and sweets.
"In Iran, you could fix a whole car for that". Besides hospitality, strangers they meet often give them gifts, Ahmadi said, such as crystal dishes and maps.
Next to a cut-crystal dish of amber aroma crystals on a side table I found another note in neat calligraphy: "Not Eatable!" A good thing, since I was at this point eating everything put in front of me.
Since crystals of all three habits (prismatic, tabular and columnar) frequently occurred in the same crystallizing dish, it is unlikely that external effects such as impurities or growth temperature alone were responsible for the variations.
"What I hope is someone will see our silver tissue-box cover or crystal soap dish in someone's guest bathroom and think, 'I want to stay there when I go to New York,"' Mr. Blauvelt said.
The Snapple Beverage Group, with 300 employees in White Plains, held a four-hour holiday party last week at the Rye Town Hilton, a buffet lunch for 300 people, and gave out 300 crystal candy dishes as gifts.
I also have affectionate and friendly wishes for the brass, crystal, silver dishes, vases, and pitchers.
Where you come from - If you didn't grow up in a house that had special silver, crystal and dishes, you probably don't have these items at the top of your wish list.
