Behold tureens, those decorative vessels designed to keep hot soup hot and cold soup cold. Throughout the ages — particularly from the 17th through the 19th Centuries — tureens and their accompanying ...

Dear Miss Manners: Urgent before Thanksgiving: I just bought a beautiful soup tureen, but am ignorant of how to serve from it. Does it go on the dining room table, in front of the hostess’ place? On ...

Reality: family gathered around traditional holiday table, Mom in the kitchen ladling soup from the pot on the stove while volunteers rush the steaming bowls to the table … where everyone sits looking ...

Soup is one of those comfort foods that everyone seems to love. But if you’re having a dinner party, it can be challenging to find a suitable container to serve it in for your table. Enter the tureen, ...

Q. Enclosed is a photo of a large soup tureen with matching ladle and platter that were handed down to my mother. I believe the pattern is called Tea Leaf. The platter measures 16 by 11 inches and the ...

Wipe the exterior of the pumpkin clean. Using a long, sharp knife, slowly cut a round opening in a circle about 2 1/2 inches wide all around the stem. Grasp the stem and pull the lid out. Using a ...

Fast food, frozen dinners and ethnic dishes have changed the way Americans eat. And with the change in food came a change in dishes. In the late 18th century, dishes were on the table when guests sat ...

We have this soup tureen that we purchased at a local yard sale many years ago. We were never able to track the mark, which is an 'N' with something that looks like a crown made from dashes over the ...

The production of silver cutlery was such an important industry in England that in the 1940s a passenger train service from Sheffield to London St Pancras was called the Master Cutler. Sheffield was ...