It's a small-plate thing, but under the circumstances – it's hot, I'm with a child – it works just right.
Another much smaller farm, Backyard, does the farm-to-plate thing by running a chef's table and cookery school.
Because of the whole sharing plates thing, and the size of the restaurant (it's massive), it lends itself to big groups, another plus when you've been out with friends and need to soak up some juice.
Like the bucking bronco that adorns state license plates, things that go up always come back down.
"You start getting hits, and you start doing things well at the plate, good things happen," Posada said.
Growing up, "vegetables were the things that were left on the plate, the things I was punished for not eating.
There will be a period where I get confident at the plate and things start to feel right".
We'd have dinner and I'd say, 'Smitty, did you enjoy your food?' And he would say to me, 'Liza, look at my plate.' Things that he liked, he'd ask me several times, 'Could you cook that for me?
Whether you want to have lots of babies or a big house or a fancy car, those goals go on your plate as things you value".
My team at Dialexa who stepped up to the plate when things got especially tough and helped me get an MVP out that dazzled the world, even if just for a short while.
We've got a full plate of things to do".
