SC - gilded food,

[grasse at mscd.edu]

Master Adamantius wrote
>One source is Indian groceries, oddly enough, where silver and gold
>sheets called vark <snip>

Last year I looked into obtaining vark from a local Indian grocer, and was 
told it was no longer legal to import into the US, so the no longer carried 
it.  If this is incorrect, or if you know of a mail order source I would be 
interested and grateful.

Gwen Cat
Caerthe
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Original Text
From: "Philip & Susan Troy" <troy at asan.com>, on 4/1/99 8:06 AM:
"D. Clay-Disparti" wrote:
> 
> 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

troy at asan.com
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