Without any context, I can't tell you if the dish refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.

[T]he modern Philosophy holds the Eternity of the Earth, or at least an Antiquity of 50,000 Years; & Mr. Byers gets thirty Zecchines apiece for his Infidel Lectures from all the English who travel thro' Rome […] .

Will you be so kind as to impress him with the fact that this expedition is on the Q.T.? Not that I think he will say anythin'.

The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.