Captain Noah Clean Plate Award
Ronna Welsh
In commemoration of my latest career milestone, I was given a token of my very first: a framed Captain Noah Clean Plate Award.
Captain Noah (and his magical ark) was a fixture on our local TV station. My mom had sent away for the award; I was maybe four. My dad framed it. It hung in our basement next to a day camp plaque for “Mermaid of the Day” and an original collage of string and glitter.
The Clean Plate Award now lives in my studio. My mom brought it to Brooklyn for #thenimblecook launch last April. I hung it between press clippings and a hand-drawn note from my daughter’s fourth grade class. I prefer map pins to frames, so the award stands out somewhat grandly among the papers, whose edges curl with kitchen steam.
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