Sometimes it is a comforting consumable, sometimes it is a choking hazard.  Please be discriminating, dear colleagues, when using these words to make generalizations about food.  You will find “smoke-hole” and “smoke-ring” in their own entries.

• 01.002 a very comfortable tunnel without smoke,
• 01.006 smoking an enormous long wooden pipe
• 01.010 and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke
• 01.068 and found Thorin with his feet on the fender smoking a pipe.
• 01.081 The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
• 04.013 and blew smoke rings,
• 04.035 into a tower of blue glowing smoke,
• 04.036 and the smoke that now fell from the roof
• 06.064 in coloured sparks and smoke.
• 06.072 Soon they had a ring of smoke
• 06.072 Smoke was in Bilbo’s eyes,
• 06.084 of sparks and smoke.
• 07.045 and the smoke was rising to the blackened rafters
• 07.102 and flying smoke was in the air.
• 07.116 this is a splendid place for smoke rings!’
• 07.116 he was so busy sending smoke rings
• 08.072 in black smokes.
• 11.008 and a dark smoke.
• 11.010 or I imagine so from the smoke,’
• 11.011 and still I expect smokes
• 12.013 and wisps of smoke,
• 12.021 the hall smoked,
• 12.042 that smoke on a gentle wind
• 13.049 by their smoking torches flurried over them;

Only one mention!  We don’t know if one enjoys cow milk, goat milk, or coconut milk in Hobbiton.

• 01.065 Pour the milk on the pantry floor!

Well here’s glimpse at my own prejudices – I read right past the word “fat” several paragraphs back because it struck me as a descriptive adjective.  Then I made it to paragraph 1.065 and the dwarves sing of treading on the fat.  The fat in question seems to be a kitchen supply, such as lard, and reminds me that “fat” is a foodstuff.  Here we go!

• 01.004 They are inclined to be fat
• 01.050 For one thing Bombur was immensely fat
• 01.065 Cut the cloth and tread on the fat!
• 02.046 for a nice bit o’ fat valley mutton like what this is.”
• 02.067 “You’re a fat fool,
• 03.028 “He is too fat to get through key-holes yet!”
• 04.046 said poor Bombur, who was fat,
• 06.078 fat melts, and bones black
• 07.087 He was fat,
• 07.121 and fat again on bread
• 08.026 You should not be so fat.
• 08.033 Bombur slept on with a smile on his fat face,
• 08.084 They’re not as fat as they might be.
• 08.088 With that one of the fat spiders ran along a rope
• 08.096 Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
• 08.096 Old fat spider can’t see me!
• 08.101 you are fat and lazy.
• 08.123 and stabbing at their fat bodies if they came too near.
• 10.015 Poor fat Bombur was asleep or senseless;
• 10.038 and they quickly grew fat
• 11.018 I am too fat for such fly-walks,’
• 12.060 though it was fat enough.
• 15.059 except perhaps old fat Bombur and Fili and Kili.
• 16.010 grumbled the fat dwarf.

Do you suppose that “appetite” and “hungry” are food words?  Let’s include them and their ilk.

• 01.060 (his appetite was quite taken away),

Only in Bilbo’s and Beorn’s houses.

• 01.058 and things piled up on big trays,
• 01.059 they had whisked the trays
• 01.063 not waiting for trays,
• 07.093 others bore on their broad backs trays with bowls

The other instance of “plate” may be found under “gold-plated“.  I had always assumed that this word was related quite directly to “flat”; the sources of the word turn out to be a complex and lovely dance between words for “flat” and for various metals – which can be presented as flat bits or plating, but not necessarily.

• 01.058 and glasses and plates and spoons
• 01.060 the plates and glasses.
• 01.063 balancing columns of plates,
• 01.064 Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
• 01.067 So, carefully! carefully with the plates!
• 07.116 At last Gandalf pushed away his plate

“plat, adj. and adv.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 28 March 2016.

“plate, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 28 March 2016.

“Glass” occurs only as a food word – a drinking vessel in The Hobbit except  as a compound word “looking-glass“.  The looking-glass is absent and, indeed, all the glasses in the book are too fragile to leave the safety of Chapter 1.

• 01.058 and glasses and plates and spoons
• 01.060 the plates and glasses.
• 01.064 Chip the glasses and crack the plates!

Pocket-knife has its own entry.

• 01.058 and dishes and knives and forks
• 01.059 and before he could say knife
• 01.064 Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
• 02.086 and they took out their knives.
• 02.114 and Bilbo took a knife
• 05.071 Knife!’ he said at last.
• 07.093 and platters and knives and wooden spoons,
• 07.095 and few save the knives were made of metal at all.
• 08.111 and cutting at the threads with their knives.
• 08.115 Some of the dwarves had knives,
• 09.002 their small knives,
• 10.025 their knives had been taken from them by the wood-elves,

Dish-covers has its own entry, and is the only other instance of “dish”.  This particular sentence is ripe with entries for us.

• 01.058 and dishes and knives and forks

“Bottle” seems to be a diminutive of “butt”, a cask for wine or ale.

• 01.058 By the time he had got all the bottles
• 01.063 each with a bottle on the top,
• 01.064 Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
• 09.063 and a leather bottle of wine
• 09.063 but the bottle helped him to do that,

“bottle, n.2.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.