After the ceremony, guests nibbled vegetarian hors d'oeuvres like grape leaves stuffed with brown rice and golden raisins and sipped pale pink apple cinnamon tea.
The colours, which now appear so fresh and spring-like with pale pink, apple green, vivid yellow and sky blue against a background of warm pearly grey, were so discoloured by candle smoke as to make the pictures seem almost monochrome.
"What is that herb?" everyone at the table wondered, dipping spoons for the third time into the powdery, pale-green apple snow flecked with bits of a darker green.
DOMAINE FAMILIAL L. DUPONT, CALVADOS DU PAYS D' AUGE, VIEILLE RESERVE $29 Pale brown, caramel apple aroma, fiery apple juice flavor.
Some creations emerging from pastry kitchens have taken a wild turn, like a pale green sour apple float devised by Christophe Toury, the pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel, using sweetened lime juice, sour apple liqueur, green apple sorbet and Perrier.
That put Early Transparent, a summer apple, pale green and sweet, in the market in late June, the earliest Mr. Peters said he can remember.
Main Road White, a sipping wine for 5 o'clock refreshment on a hot Sunday afternoon, is pale, dry, fruity (apple crispness and a pear flavor stand out) and almost minerally.
Sonnora's excellent wine list includes reasonably priced older wines, like a remarkable 1981 Wehlener Sonnenuhr spatlese from J. J. Prum for $31, still pale gold and apple fresh, that demonstrates riesling's unusual ability to age.
Swedish Art Glass Glass with painted enamel colors, plates with Matisse-like engravings, a freely blown pale blue glass apple vase the size of a large pumpkin: these are just a few of the examples of Swedish art glass on loan from the Orrefors and Kosta glass museums that were on view earlier this week at the International Art and Design Fair in Manhattan.
His personal favourite is the Colloggett Pippin, a massive pale yellowy-green apple, which he turns into a pretty, pretty potent brew indeed.
