On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 11:59:06 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/1/2021 6:21 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> Cuisine minceur was roundly mocked for charging the earth for a
>> miniscule portion of food.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>I recall in the early 1980's my parents went to dinner with another
>couple at one of the fancy restaurants in The Peabody Hotel in Memphis.
> My parents didn't have huge appetites but my father told me he was
>*stunned* at the miniscule portions. A tiny piece of meat, a couple of
>boiled fingerling potatoes and maybe three haricot verts, oh so artfully
>arranged on the plate. At a cost of about $80.

Nouvelle cuisine. From those days, I remember getting a hexagonal
black plate, with one strawberry on it.