She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.

她坐在那里一点点吃着自己那一小盘米饭色拉，一副可怜兮兮的样子。

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She served me a large plate of snacks and fruit salad.

她给我端来一大盘零食和水果沙拉。

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The accompanying parsley, radish, red onion, pine nut and currant salad rounds out the plate with contrasting textures and lively flavors.

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As it stands, the only options are a bland salad and a very tasty plate of blistered shishito peppers served with four sorts of salt: green tea, wasabi, hickory, and yuzu.

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Between them they keep alive a tradition that goes back centuries, a tradition celebrated on the plate in the form of stuffed mussels, marinated anchovies, octopus salad, deep-fried sea anemones, prawns with cannellini beans, and linguine with spiny lobster.

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