I have been dying to change my dinner plates for the past year. Mistmatched plates and bowls were tolerated until we moved to our new home. I needed new plates.. “Easier for who?” I asked. “I’m the one who’s cooking. I’ll go after dinner.” So we ate baloney sandwiches on paper plates skirted with stale chips, saving ourselves for the grand Christmas feast I had planned for the next day Super charcuterie plate and vegetable antipasto: each four to six simple, self-contained, superb little bites. Duck prosciutto, a salume of pork shoulder whose thin slices featured a gigantic square of sublime white fat in the middle, . Just White dinnerware sets a table with modern, Asian-inspired styling in clean, simple white. The square plates with rounded corners present a classy yet casual look appropriate for either lunch on the run or leisurely candlelight . At Coast Bar and Grill (39-D John St., 843-722-8838), there are half-priced bottles of wine and special tapas plates ($6-$9) on Sundays. After dinner, head to Mistral Restaurant (99 S. Market St., 843-722-5708) for cappuccino and free . We decided to share the Caesar Salad as a starter. They split the salad into two plates for us and it was still more than an ample portion for each of us. Wedges of crisp romaine lettuce were prettily arranged in square white bowls and . Each was a small bit sized piece, served in a square white fish and then with a different sauce or herb depending on the fish. Chef Mike Psilakis is very imaginative and creative and I give him the nod for that but the fish wasn't as . We saw several groups of soldiers marching here and there in unison, white-gloved hands swinging in time, in preparation for the ceremony. I would have liked to stay to see the ceremony but we had to get to the hotel and to dinner, . He always planted the small vegetables, the carrots and the onions and the cabbages, right up next to the house, so Cora could sneak a few onto their dinner plates every week. Nothing ever tasted so good as something he’d planted with . Jewish girls have their bat mitzvahs at 12, Southern girls have their debutante balls in their late teens, socialites have their Sweet 16 parties, and I have dinner at Babbo at 27. It's all coming together quite nicely Art de la table