And so it's with a description of that morning that she chooses to begin her memoir Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites. The book that unfolds is an examination of the ...

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In either case, “blue plate” was associated with good food, cheap food, or a combination of both. The phrase took on greater meaning during the Great Depression , when budgets were stretched thin.