Nine-inch white ceramic luncheon plates with whimsical drawings like beach umbrellas and beach chairs and seasonal mantras like "relax" and "cool" are by Beth Mueller, a designer in Vermont.
Don't miss the Roycroft bookends, the Sonneman chrome and lucite lamps, the Dodie Thayer luncheon plates, the Eileen Gray chair, the Picasso terracotta jug, the Fase Madrid boomerang lamp and the gorgeous antique 1870s mantle clock set.
— At a paper-plate luncheon for lawyers and judges on Friday, Nathan Deal, the Republican nominee for governor of Georgia, searched for a metaphor that would resonate.
The $400-a-plate luncheon with Liukin followed by an exhibition with the Fullerton and U.C.L.A. gymnastics teams drew about 1,000 supporters, most of them little girls in pigtails and their parents.
"It is far more difficult to earn that enthusiastic support when you are spending your time at $50,000-a-plate luncheons".
About 150 people paid $1,500 a plate for the luncheon, which was organized by the state's Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee.
Or when it's your turn to bring a dish to the ladies luncheon, surprise the girls with a plate of juicy, home-grown chocolate tomatoes topped with your zesty chocolate pepper relish.
The Green Party's Wallace, a longshot candidate, has pledged to cap his campaign spending at $10,000, or, as the Herald News notes, "the cost of 20 plates at the Cheney luncheon".
I'm off for a plate of this, the only luncheon treat that's ever been shilled by a talking golf glove.
