Wolfred put a plate of bread and fish on the dirt floor where she could reach it.
Another day, a diner idly wished for a second plate of bread, and seconds later it appeared.
It is as if the gleam on the plate in "Bread and Jam" in the drawing at the Morgan had exploded into the mirror theme.
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.
She sets a plate with bread and fruit to honor deceased loved ones, places orange candles around the room, cuts a pomegranate to invoke the spirit of the mythical figure Persephone, and begins divvying up exact portions of the wormwood, mullein (also called graveyard dirt), mugwort and other herbs.
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.
One night in late January, in one version of the tradition, children place plates of bread crumbs outdoors and wake up the next morning to find the plates filled with candy and cookies.
I'm more of the Two-Toed Sloth kind of mother; once his fifteen minutes of homework is done, I let my son loll around on piles of comics with plates of bread and jam.
A new article in The International Journal of Obesity doesn't turn the clock back quite that far but looks at nearly a thousand years' worth of paintings depicting the meal and concludes that the sizes of portions, plates and bread "increased dramatically" over those years.
