5_4_eames.jpeg"Under the caste system of India the lowest form of caste would eat off a banana leaf.
The next highest would eat off a ceramic dish.
The next highest had a glazed dish.
Then perhaps a brass dish, a bell-bronze one, then a plated one, then maybe a gold one.
But then, when you got to the very highest, they ate off a banana leaf again"

Charles Eames