Many of my dishie friends love glass as well. Then the challenge comes up: identifying glass. Most glass is not marked.
Learning the makers and patterns takes time and experience. There are many wonderful books, but they will only get you part of the way.
We are fortunate here to have our local Great Lakes Depression Glass [...]

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Glass accessories like goblets, cake plates, salt and pepper shakers or jam jars are guaranteed to light up your table setting ideas.
The shine and transparent qualities of glass are often complementary to your china dinnerware sets.
Glass has been used since Roman times due to its beauty, transparency and color possibilities. In [...]

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Every time I’ve seen aquamarine glassware, it has caught me eye. It’s a color from the late 1960s, early 1970s. Of course, what goes around comes around, and this sea green variation is back as the turquoise of 2010 fashion and style.
Global color authority Pantone declared 2010 as the year of turquoise, referencing its color [...]

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A wonderful set of new glassware is now yours, perfect to add sparkle and shine to your table settings.
Whether the pieces are goblets, tumblers, sherbets, coolers or any of the other glassware shapes, you will want to use them often. Here’s how you can take the best care of them:
Glass is softer than it looks. [...]

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Glass has so many uses for food, especially clear glass, when you want to make something special for a holiday treat.
This red, white and blue gelatin recipe has been around for many years in different versions. I thought a vintage glass mixing bowl would really show it off, and take up less space in the [...]

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Orphan glassware that attracts my attention isn’t limited to drinking glasses. This vintage refrigerator drip catching dish just called out, “Repurpose me!”
I used to have an old refrigerator, one with no shelving on the inside of the door. The kind you have to defrost by hand (portable hair dryers help).
And I remember the one my [...]

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Another one of those orphan glasses… This time, it’s an 8 oz flat tumber by Anchor Hocking, aqua blue, in the Milano pattern. By flat, they mean that there’s no foot or stem on the glass.
Milano has a bark-like texture on the outside. The color really drew us in on this one.
Now that I know [...]

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When I was a kid, it was the stuffed animals. Now it’s the dishes, and orphan glassware is always a temptation. They look so lonely…
When I’m out and about, I’m attracted to the onesies and twosies in among the glassware.
We found these wonderful green glass tumblers, made in France. They have great grape vines embossed [...]

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Some years ago, at a carry-in lunch, a colleague brought a great Broccoli Salad.
I liked the interplay of the crunchy, raw broccoli with the zingy sweet and sour dressing. But the recipe was missing in action.
So I went home and developed my own version. It’s great in the summer, when cool salads are refreshing. And [...]

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One thing leads to another…saw an item from the Food Network about table setting this week…
….well, that link is gone but if you go to Food Network’s site and search under “table setting” you’ll see the current versions of table settings….
I think this vintage and new concept still has a lot to offer. The fall [...]

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