While waiting for the job to finish, he tore open an envelope containing a shiny black lacquer platter, a template for the label's next vinyl release.
In the post-dawn gray, the villagers marched up the hill, the men in black carrying platters of bananas and corn cakes, which they laid down before a towering fig tree.
But my Florence wading hole was meant to convey a poo-poo platter of black and green tiled noisy faux chic.
Just before our guests arrived for Thanksgiving dinner, she transferred the chopped liver to a serving bowl and put it on the dining room table with a plate of saltines and the other appetizers, a platter of black pitted olives, whole radishes and vegetable crudités.
Instead of plastering the place with cutout red hearts and cupids, they covered the furniture in black fabric, made up platters of black food (olives, licorice, Oreos with the centers scraped out), served black drinks (black Russians, Johnny Walker Black) and played breakup music (Depeche Mode, the Smiths).
Or that every centimeter of the long concrete and aluminum fitted dining room is a design statement, from the wall hanging made of a patchwork of multicolored squares of shag rugs to the Egyptian- or Polynesian-looking statues of black cat deities holding platters filled with votive candles.
The excellent choice of local eateries includes Blackanese Sushi & Wine Bar, with its noodle bar, chopstick-decorated walls and, as the name suggests, black chefs preparing sushi platters.
There were platters of black bread at the Molini Spigadoro tent.
My only disappointment was the bland black tuna in the sashimi platter.
Not many people sit down in front of the television with a silver platter adorned with black truffles and fresh codthe pastry-wrapped escargot paste also had its own silver stand.
