Johnalewis74's Blog
Johnalewis74's Blog
Aug 28, 2007 | 11:12 AM PST
Tags: Tropical Plants , Bromeliads
Creative Food Display in Colonial America...
Creative food display... the main entertainment during a formal home visit... was a means by which a woman declared both her personality and her family's status. Within the bounds of their family's means, hostesses sought to outdo each other in the creation of memorable, fantasy-like dining room scenes. Foodstuffs often drizzled and were webbed in sugar, studded with china figurines, festooned with flowers and woven with garlands of pine and laurel. Dinners were extravaganzas of visual delights, novel tastes, new discoveries and congenial conversation that went on for hours.
Rare Pineapple: King of Colonial Fruits...
Dried, candied and jellied, were the major attractions of the community's appetite and dining practices, the pineapple was the true celebrity. Its rarety, expense, reputation and visual attractineness made it the ultimate exotic fruit. It was the pineapple that came to literally crown the most important feasts, often held aloft on special pedestals as the pinnacle of the table's central food mound.
