Dijon Yellow Stoneware Dinner Plate

The color arrives before the food does. A yellow table on a grey Tuesday in February, and dinner becomes an occasion nobody planned.

A stoneware dinner plate with a scalloped rim, from a French house in Arques. The wave runs the whole edge. Everything else is left alone.

For the friend who has eaten off white plates for a decade. For the cook who sets the table properly on a weeknight.