Listen to Macmillan rattling a silver ladle his grave.
Through Oct. 25 highlights of the lodge treasury are on view at the museum, including a gold urn and silver ladle by Paul Revere.
It is full of vivid particulars: swans that are cream puff pastries with wings dipped in icing sugar, a tarnished silver ladle the Eicher boy, Hart, polishes to give his mother, reclaimed from a Catholic rummage sale (the family is on the verge of bankruptcy), a Christmas play that the youngest and most fanciful child, Annabel, is staging.
When the entrees did arrive, they came with a flourish, a great Lifting of the Silver Domes and Ladling from the Giant Terrines.
They include a statuette of a leaping tigress, made as a handle for an object such as a jug or lamp; four pepper-pots (piperatoria); a beaker; a vase or juglet (a small jug); four bowls; a small dish; and 98 silver spoons and ladles.
The silver punch bowl and ladle, decorated with grapes, from the Mackay collection is an example.
His gallery has an 1880 silver-plate Dresser soup tureen (with ladle) for $38,500.
The fish is skillfully sautéed so that the skin crisps up while the immaculate white flesh stays moist, then presented on a silver platter, expertly pulled apart and ladled with meunière.
Not to be outdone, Soup Me (55 Neofit Rilski Street; 359-88-862-6525), where a ladle serves as the door handle and silver pots have been fashioned into ceiling lamps, serves specials like shkembe chorba (or tripe soup; from 3.80 leva).
Tibetan metalworkers have excelled in producing fine things for ritual and domestic use: ritual lamps, vases, bowls, bells, prayer wheels, decorated trumpets and horns, for the temples, and, for home use, ornamented teapots, jars, bowls, ladles, and especially beautiful stands, often in silver or gold, to hold porcelain teacups, capped by finely worked lids of precious metals.
Jato raised the flame-engulfed ladle and let the stream of alcohol, shimmery, almost silver, fall into the kettle.
