Serving aids

Usage examples of platters.

Woven trays of tava bread, roasted peppers, onions, long beans, cabbage, cucumber and beets, bowls of stewed meats, fish, and chicken, as well as platters of boar and venison, were carried by young women from the cook fires to people gathered at various shelters.

The women laid slabs of tough dark bread down on the basketwork platters, then piled on the meat and other dishes, or brought clay bowls marked with waving patterns.

That was the signal for the other women to begin heaping platters of wood and bone and filling large bowls with the food they had labored so long to prepare.

She scrambled through bone platters and wooden bowls holding the remains of the feast congealed in them, searching for the treasured container.

Jaryd saw dozens and dozens of large round tables bathed in light cast by tree-mounted torches, and covered with flasks of wine and platters of meats, greens, fruits, breads, cheeses, and cakes.

Servants scurried between the courts bearing huge platters of savory mutton and stuffed poultry and wines and breads.

Kysia and Quyal appear beside the table to remove the dinner platters and to place a small plate before each of the diners.

Soaris was wearing appeared with two large platters of the same fine white china, then scurried out and returned with two more.

Dorrin looks again, realizing that the platters are similarly constrained and that the heavy brown earthenware has raised edges, presumably to keep the food from sliding off.

Servants scurried in with platters of food and baskets of bread, the candlelight flashing on their silver collars.

Caladaster said heartily as he watched platters of steaming turtles and buttered snails brought to the table.

He reached down and plucked up a number of scepters from among a litter of metal-bound tomes, platters and smaller boxes.

She had never known him to show any interest in food except to fill his stomach, and he had eaten platters of Thetan oysters or slabs of seagrass bread with equal indifference.

On a table lay the remains of a meal, and beside it, balancing himself with one large hand among the platters, stood Mr Samuel Johnson.

As soon as she and Richard sat cross-legged, the young women brought woven trays and platters of food.