Today
Today I went shopping with a friend who is getting married. When at last, I managed to pry her away from shops filled with grossly over-priced wedding frippery, we went for tea near Berkeley Square. Weddings mean green tea and no cake apparently. Bad luck for her. All the more for me.
Looking around the faux-grand tea room, being served by the desultory waitress, I was inspired to come home and dig through my images of trade cards for Signor Negri's trade card. If only we had been to the Pineapple, where we could have been served by plump putti bearing little tazza filled with pistachio and brown bread ices.
D. Negri
Confectioner at the Pineapple
in Berkeley Square
Makes and Sells All Sorts of English, French
& Italian wet & dry'd Sweet Meats
Cedrati and Bergamot Chips.
Naples Diavolini and Diavoloni
All Sorts of Biskets & Cakes, fine and Common
Sugar Plums, Syrup of Capillaire, Orgeate and
Marsh Mallow, Ghimauve or Lozenges for Colds
and Cough, all Sorts of Ice, Fruits and Creams in the
Best Italian maner. Likewise furnishes Entertainments in
Fashions, Sells All sorts of Deserts
& Glass work at the
Lowest Price.
