SC - gilded food,

[grasse@mscd.edu]

How edible is gold and silver?  Wouldn't it make one sick?

Elysant
(Thought I heard that somewhere about gold anyway...)
 
 
>> I am interested in finding a source for the gold sheets for gilding....or
>> anything....the only gold I could find when I needed it was a decorating powder you
>> had to mix with vodka to use and the effect was not nearly so splendid.  Any help
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Isabella/Dee
>
>One source is Indian groceries, oddly enough, where silver and gold
>sheets called vark are used both to decorate foods and also to
>encapsulate betel nuts with various other herb/spice flavorings for chewing.
>
>Real gold vark is rather expensive, compared to some things, but an
>extremely little goes a rather long way. A quarter ounce is quite a few
>sheets of the stuff, IIRC.
>
>I've only worked with the silver stuff.
>
>Adamantius
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>Phil & Susan Troy
>
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