Small plates is the informal name for a type of cuisine that became popular in Western dining after 2000.
"Small plates" may refer simply to the style of serving several small courses of food at a meal instead of a few larger courses, or may refer specifically to:
- Tapas, a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine
- Mezze, a wide variety of appetizers in Turkish cuisine, and sometimes in Greek cuisine
- Antipasti, a wide variety of appetizers in Italian cuisine
Famous quotes containing the words small and/or plates:
“These are the small townsmen of death,
A man and a woman, like two leaves
That keep clinging to a tree,
Before winter freezes and grows black....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
“Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)