blue plate
Americannoun
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a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
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Also called blue plate special. a specially priced main course, as of meat and vegetables, listed as an item on a menu, especially in an inexpensive restaurant.
Etymology
Origin of blue plate
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Q: Soil is a cornerstone of the global food system, and very much a focus of The Blue Plate.
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By analyzing the emissions released when food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped, The Blue Plate makes the case that curbing the carbon footprint of what we eat won't require an agricultural revolution.
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Q: The through line of The Blue Plate is this question: "Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?"
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Editor's note: Patagonia, the publisher of The Blue Plate, is an advertiser with Grist.
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Q: In The Blue Plate, you visited a Colorado farm where the farmers have eliminated things like mechanically tilling the soil or leaving land fallow, both of which degrade soil.
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