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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Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: "How could a morning piece of toast or a plate of dinner pasta be such a world-altering culprit?"
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Q: In The Blue Plate, you dig into the emissions impact of the production and consumption of everything from husks of corn to hunks of meat.
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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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Q: Soil is a cornerstone of the global food system, and very much a focus of The Blue Plate.
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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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