So Ms. Peled made a pu pu platter-style tray with small amounts of items he enjoyed, like buffalo wings and vegetable skewers.
3. To serve, arrange the bones and salad on a platter family style and pass the toast and sea salt.
How She Serves: "Present your dishes on platters, family style.
Shots come on a wooden platter vampiro-style — with a snort of tomato juice.
Before winter escapes, this savory wine should be poured with a steaming platter of Alsatian-style choucroute garnie.
In addition to plain hummus served with warm pita ($7.95), there are also, among others, a Texas-style platter that teams the chickpea purée with rib-eye steak and vegetables ($9.95); a San Diego hummus platter with sliced grilled Cornish hen ($9.95); and a Veggie Thai platter that layers grilled peppers, onion, white cabbage and sesame seeds on the hummus ($8.95).
The four-piece stoneware place setting ($75), vegetable bowl ($65) and serving platter ($75) take styling cues from the metal Dune serving dishes ($50 to $125) and flatware ($55 for a five-piece place setting; $55 for a three-piece serving set).
At a time when even the finest traditional restaurants were still serving hearty "family style" platters, the new chefs carefully apportioned the elements of each dish — a zigzag of sorrel sauce, a spoonful of carrot purée, a coil of lemon zest, a shapely cut of meat.
Grilled beef short ribs, for instance, come piled high, on a sizzling fajitas-style platter with kimchi, but in the migas (the Spanish answer to stir-fry, made with chunks of day-old bread and a bracing pinch of paprika, is having a moment) the bits of trout are scarce.
A huge platter of Florentine-style steak with "Tuscan fries" and grilled tomatoes is a bit of a bore, and osso buco with fava beans and red-pepper risotto, although acceptable, never quite achieves the nirvana of falling off the bone at the merest nudge of a fork.
Note: You can also arrange the grains and accompaniments on a large platter and serve family style.
