Update Your Tablescape With Chargers
Update your table's look with chargers! No not the kind you plug in your phone. These are charger plates. Chargers can be used in a variety of ways. They are a little larger than the average dinner plate and often seen at restaurants holding the place until the dinner plate comes. Sometimes it is taken as you are seated, sometimes it is taken after the salad course or dinner course. They can be used as a way to protect your table cloth during appetizer, soup, salad, or dinner course. However, the common consensus is to remove them before the dessert is served. There are so many varieties and styles, materials, and textures. Porcelain, glass, plastic, metal, woven, etc. Many, I noticed, are not food safe. Think of them as a kind of round special place mat. One kind of charger has a special story at my house, because I made it from a part of my surroundings from the last thirty years. Yes, I said thirty years. We had a pine tree by our fence that died, so when the men
