The Crudite Crowd

With new vegetables showing up at the green market and in our ever-larger gardens, party crudités are more glorious than ever. Before you market, decide on your general color scheme and the container for the crudités. We prefer broad, flat dishes for the most dramatic presentation, but don’t overlook other choices: a basket, an antique silver tray, a shallow copper pan, a Chinese bamboo steamer, a majolica ice bucket, a Lucite bowl, a lacquer tray.