Liz Willoughby on wed 13 sep 00
Martin,
Think of tenmoku glazed Japanese plates with sushi and fish on them.
Think of cold asparagus, green salads, white rice, carrots, on a
tenmoku plate.
I've got a bunch of Ron Roy tenmoku plates, and food on them looks stunning.
White is good, but black is really classy.
And I use them!
As for what sells, frankly the general public's taste is appalling.
(Bet that gets some responses.) They mostly like painted flowers or
melmac for eating on.
People who love handmade pots, have their own preference, but I would
be willing to bet, that a lot of potters love eating off tenmoku
plates.
Meticulously loose Liz
Getting ready for a studio tour this week-end. And that moon tonight
is also a bit of joy.
>Ron Roy posted
>
Martin Howard posted
>Am I right in thinking that you consider black to be a better background for
>food than white?
>
>Chefs over here seem to prefer white. An article in the latest Ceramic
>Review confirms that.
>Our discussion of wide rims on plates was on the assumption that the white
>rim shows off the colour of the food.
>
>I would love to change the mind of the eating public to vegetarian food,
>served on green platters without rims. But the meat eating majority would
>still like to see their red meat on clinical white plates, wouldn't they?
>:-)
>
>What actually sells, at present? And where is public taste going?
Liz Willoughby
R.R. 1
2903 Shelter Valley Rd.
Grafton, Ontario
Canada. K0K 2G0
e-mail, lizwill@phc.igs.net
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