The phrase "a plate of bread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a serving of bread that is presented on a plate, often in the context of a meal or dining experience.
Example: "For the appetizer, we were served a plate of bread accompanied by a selection of dips."
Alternatives: "a dish of bread" or "a serving of bread."
Wolfred put a plate of bread and fish on the dirt floor where she could reach it.
When he spied a plate of bread and salami in a kitchen at 55 Wall Street, a landmark building his company is converting into a hotel, he asked for it to be sent to his office.
My first night there, I returned to the apartment after a light, mostly liquid supper (two glasses of sangiovese, a liter of water, a plate of bread and cheese) at a wonderful little Trastevere wine bar, Enoteca Ferrara.
Whatever Hughes might have undone or redone in his relationship to Sylvia Plath, the opportunity was taken from him when she committed suicide, in February of 1963, by putting her head in a gas oven as her two small children slept in a bedroom nearby, which she had sealed against gas fumes, and where she had placed mugs of milk and a plate of bread for them to find when they awoke.
Why is this one cramming a plate of bread into her face?
At home, I'm allergic to snack-meals, here, in my porous cloak of semi-invisibility, a plate of bread and cheese, wine and good conversation is the entire food pyramid in one sitting.
By the time my guests arrived, all bearing gifts, I had put out a bowl of hummus and a plate of pita bread as an appetizer, the runt of my menu.
Movie stars have been trooping to Paris with regularity since the end of World War II, none with a greater sense of self perfection than Marlene Dietrich, who had Christian Dior create a series of suspenders inside her suits so that whether she was standing or enjoying a plate of brown bread and sauerkraut at her favorite restaurant, no bad lines ever showed.
After running through the rain from the subway to a restaurant, my dining companion and I were cold and wet and ready for a bottle of red wine and a plate of garlic bread while we decided on the rest of our dinner.
Now, Universal will be passing E.T. around again, like a plate of Wonder bread at an Iowa dinner table.
A Los Angeles man ordered fried chicken from a KFC restaurant in Willowbook but instead got a plate of crispy, breaded fried rat, he claims.
