Bumper-rimmed, low to the ground, the Roomba Intelligent FloorVac weighs seven and a half pounds; it's the size of a short stack of dinner plates.
At first glance, the pieces look like porcelain renditions of Renaissance palaces in Florence, but each "building" is actually made up of a stack of six plates (dinner or dessert size) or bowls (cereal or soup) with a "roof" that, when turned over, becomes another usable dish.
Dinner was a stack of white bread, on which a healthy cockroach crawled while a patient, named Yelappa, slept.
LAST weekend I spent about $700, flew six hours, spent three additional hours in airports waiting for late planes and slept on a fold-out sofa, all so I could go grocery shopping for my mother, buy her a stack of novels and take her out to dinner.
Set out the fillings in bowls and warm a stack of fresh corn tortillas, and you have a Mexican dinner party with healthy food.
When we make rounds every morning at breakfast time, a stack of trays always leans against one closed door: lunch and dinner from yesterday, breakfast from today.
Greg's father, a plastic surgeon known as the "Breast Man", eats dinner with one hand, freeing the other to leaf through a stack of photographs of swollen post-operative breasts.
I remember dinner one night after a game in Hershey Park, looking over at a stack of cell phones at the end of the table, while the girls laughed, told stories and played cards.
These meats "can create more of an illusion of a home-cooked meal than bringing in a stack of hamburgers; I think that probably the person who makes the decision about what's for dinner will like them".
In a park-side building designed to look like a stack of plates, it is only open for lunch, but keep an eye out for ad hoc dinner events in the centre's restaurant (often advertised on aprendiendodeloschefs.blogspot.com.es).es
