SC - re: gilded food

[kat]

Forgive me if this has already been answered:

Isabella/Dee asks about edible goldleaf.  I got mine from an art supply 
store, who had to special-order it for me.  The cashier was on the phone 
for ten minutes with the company (can't remember which one), insisting that 
she wanted the 24-karat gold leaf in the catalog and them telling her they 
didn't have it in stock, couldn't she accept the lesser-quality stuff. 
 Finally she says, in kind of a shocked whisper, "It has to be 24-karat 
because, well, they say they're going to, um... EAT it."  And the guy on 
the phone says, "Oh, CULINARY gold leafing, why didn't you say so?" and I 
had it 24 hours later.

It comes in a book of 25 extreeeeeeemely fragile sheets about 4 in. to a 
side, and costs about 80 bucks.  Exhaling while manipulating a sheet can 
cause it to shatter into tiny tiny pieces.  Practice a little with it; 
don't ever touch it with your hands, and try using static to get it to 
adhere to your food.  Work in a room with all the doors and windows shut, 
and lock them so nobody "drops in."  Turn off all the fans, heat and air 
vents, and think of Margaret Hamilton in the Wizard of Oz:  "These things 
must be handled deeeeelicately....."  :-)

Best of luck,

	- kat


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