In our house, every plate, glass and fork was from some Brooklyn flea market.
But you'll get weighted down in a hurry if you grab every plate and cup you come across.
The first revolution in cutlery was, in fact, revolutionary: you left your dagger at the door, and sat down to a table set with flatware at every plate.
The fish (I no longer felt I deserved to call it by its rightful name), though undercooked, was vastly superior to the canned ravioli I heated on a hot plate every night.
It seems that it would be easy enough to recreate that kind of boost for only a few minutes a batter spends at the plate in every game.
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He poured me a glass of Le Baccanti, an Apulian Primitivo, which was just dry enough to complement rather than overwhelm the dishes coming at me at the rate of roughly one per every half-eaten plate.
He told the staff there to note the license plate numbers of every such farmer but called off his plan a few months later.
One site, licenseplatelookup.com, doesn't display results for my plate and just about every other one I consider.
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Mr Roberts already has to attach a hearing aid to a magnetic plate inserted under his skin every morning.
Like the powerful nickel-metal-hydride battery in the Toyota Prius that he drives to work every day, the one with the license plate OVONIC.
Also aggressively un-local: a hearty sausage plate, with a new variety every week, served with an appealing and abundant platter of chopped onion, pickle, and pita.
Given his 6-foot-6, 250-pound frame, forward Chane Behanan looks like the sort of kid who ate every last leaf of spinach on his dinner plate growing up.
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And even if you pick one, it's not every consumer who is comfortable working behind the wall plate.
The simplest piece of advice for this person is just to start walking, a few miles every day, and put less food on your plate.
Pause every now and then to evaluate what is on the plate and to take things off the plate.
When the meal arrives, there's often no way of knowing every single ingredient that went into it, or what else touched the plate and utensils used to serve it.
Baseball and poker players spend lots of time picking up signs, moving into position and working the count, but every once in a while, they have to step up to the plate and come through.
They rise every morning and, as one gamblers says, "step up to the plate" in the hope that one day will be better than the last.
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