I have my grandmother’s “good” dishes from when she passed over 20 years ago. My husband’s grandparents had the exact same pattern.
I’m working on getting the whole of their set but I now have coffee cups and small bowls. I doubt I will ever get the whole set as it was a complicated downsizing but they family is a set together
And they ran theirs through the dishwasher with no ill effects!
My only food themed pieces are an old Pillivuyt pate tureen painted to look like a pate en croute with a duck’s head poking through the crust, a South American baking dish with a pig face (future food) as one of the handles, and a few copper molds. I used to have the puking cow creamer but gave it away.
Several years ago, I woke up and decided there are “givers” and “takers.” Oh so many more takers.
I’ve been too generous and decided to really try to give to generous, giving people.
That strawberry cake looks so gorgeous!
If you ever visit San Francisco, I’d love to treat you to b. patisserie, lovely place. For reals!!!
Would love to meet up in San Francisco on my next trip, whenever that is!
Unfortunately, I haven’t been since 2017, and I’m not sure when I’ll be able to travel next!
Ah, it must be the pate tureen I remember.
C’mon over! But you’ll be disappointed to find that the tone of our dinner parties is sadly lacking in the sort of entertaining hostility we enjoyed when our mothers were still alive. It still makes me laugh whenever I put one of my mother-in-law’s plates on top of my mother’s plate. And then scramble up the cutlery. I can only imagine the two of them spinning in their graves.
We also inherited a cupboard full of very beautiful tasteful crystal wine glasses that I rarely use because we are careless drinkers and really shouldn’t be trusted with anything more precious than the ones we get from IKEA two dozen at a time. I will bring them out when I’m feeling fancy, though.
It is cool. I love making pate in it. I first spied one in1971 staying with the founders of Chez Panisse and always wanted one just to look at, long before my one year rule. It is pretty easy to want pate more than once a year!
Not a big bunny fan, but I have to constantly talk myself out of getting winnie the pooh things.
As a kid, I won a copy of Winnie the Pooh from our local library - we put our library card numbers in a big bin and mine was drawn out. I still have the book.
My first year college dorm mate bought me a Winnie the Pooh book. She forced me to read. It is quite a good book - even for a college student 
I still have kitty plates, that I bought for myself as an adult. I love those things. If I were to buy myself a plate, I’d want ones that are divided like they have for kids. I have this thing with certain foods running together and touching. Not all foods, but certain flavors and sauces should not mingle, IMO.
…and, obviously, Star Wars…
Do you have any Star Wars theme cookware or serveware?
My view is that most people don’t want or need formal china but that doesn’t mean interesting plates/dishes are not of interest. All you have to do is go to some of the hipster places and see the thought that goes into the plates and glassware. Many people care about what they eat off of. It just doesn’t look like what their parents used. Maybe more like what their fashionable grandparents (if they had them) used.
In NYC there is a store, Fishs Eddy that started selling old restaurant china. Then moved to making some of their own stuff and other newer items. It does huge business.
My wife and several of her friends collect various vintage china patterns. Much of it from just before to just after WWII. The amount of china we have is staggering. The amount spent is just as large. I think we could easily set service for a few hundred people. Not matching but enough to serve a feast.
And yes we have different patterns for different holidays and seasons.
Also a Boomer here. Yes, I inherited 3 partial sets of good china and use them for holiday meals for us two. Parent’s Urn and Ivy pattern at Christmas, maternal Grandmother’s blue / gold rim-pattern for Thanksgiving and paternal Grandmother’s pale pink/green pattern for Easter. All of those china patterns get hand washed. I also have special occasion dishwasher-safe salad plates - Snowman Portraits - for winter. And a set of hot air balloon salad plates that get used mix/match with my everyday plates and washed in the dishwasher. All of these make me smile and have good family memories associated. I think 4 of my set of pink FireKing glass plates which get used at Easter and for spring/summer desserts came from my maternal grandmother, and I added to them at garage sales/thrift shops.
I collected Pfaltzgraff Winterberry Christmas dinnerware and used it a lot before inheriting my parents china. I thrift shopped a set of green glassware dishes, thinking I’d use them at Christmas time mix/match with that but it’s still in the back corner of the buffet, I should get that out and sell.
I have a set of clear glass apple-shaped dessert/salad plates and matching serving bowl that gets used in the Fall.
For Easter, I have a lamb cake mold (inherited, cake baked alternating years) and also the NordicWare sleeping baby bunnies cake pan which I use for shaped dinner rolls.
For the curious - Images of the china under various holiday meals got posted last year.
Easter
Thanksgiving
Christmas
I loved going to Fishs Eddy when I lived in New York. I still have a few plates and a couple of their NYC-themed glasses.
Nope. They lost me after the first two movies. I’d consider swag from Spaceballs, though.
