Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Lazy Susan

I’m in the market for a Lazy Susan (or is it “lazy susan” with a lowercase? Do you capitalize a contraption if it’s named after a real Susan?)
Having a handy rotating food caddy may hardly seem like a novelty to you if you grew up with one on your tabletop, but after spending a week with a Susan who lived in the old house we rented in Maine, I fell in love with the idea of a carousel that would assist us during our family meals.
In the morning we placed a tableau of breakfast items on the Susan–yogurts and granola, bowls and spoons, a sliced green apple, a bottle of golden honey–and then we took turns giving it a spin.
Every morning the tableau would change, sometimes someone would add a stuffed monkey or a wooden car.

Apparently there’s a whole market for fancy lazy susans, like this website I found that specializes in turntables made of granite. The name of the site is actually granitelazysusan.com. Go figure.
But these are the ones I’m thinking of getting from the Vermont Bowl Company. What do you think?