Let’s get picky about plates, OK?

My friend Lorraine isn’t just any fussy restaurant customer. Because she worked in the hospitality business for so many years, she’s willing to forgive many little (and not-so-little) eccentricities and goofs in the culinary world. But even the laid-back Miss L. can lose her cool at the latest insult to common sense: designer plates. She detests the new trend for rectangular plates.

I prefer rectangles to the triangle-shaped plates I’ve been seeing lately. But most people know my theory about plates: as long as they’re not paper, styrofoam or ridiculously chipped, I’ll eat off of just about anything. And have!