For Christmas we gave our daughter Kim some speckled melamine plastic mixing bowls, reproductions of the old ones she collects. They are light weight and colorful and she likes to use them in the kitchen. Today we saw a “Rachel Ray garbage bowl” advertised for sale at Kohl’s. The same speckled plastic. We had noticed the bowls on her Food Channel TV show when she was making some thirty minute meals. The old bowls were made by Plastics Manufacturing Company in Dallas, Texas, and are marked “Texas Ware.” The new ones are made by Zak!

On the left, New Zak set of 4 “Confetti Mixing Bowls.” On the right, a vintage “Texas Ware” bowl.