canapé
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This canapé base is a collard blini, layered with a light and airy chevre black-eyed pea mousse and topped with a brunoise of roasted beet, lemon zest and green apple Pop Rocks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
So an “efficient, affordable and zero-waste” canapé was made from cucumber, tomato, mould microprotein, dried anchovy and indian salad hydroponically grown in Clapham.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019
What better time to share memories and music and, as he puts it, to “lie about ourselves a little”? Except that truth telling, however painful, turns out to be the canapé of choice.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
But that description misses the sneaky, subversive wit that pierces every scene of this movie like a toothpick in a canapé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
Canapés are usually served cold, on a plate covered with a doily; the canapé is placed on this.
From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson
This company wouldn’t be a snack — it wouldn’t even be a canape — for $4 trillion Alphabet or $5 trillion Apple.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Related: Festive party food hacks and the return of the Egg Master Dates with cheese and chorizo This is the most delicious canape I’ve ever eaten.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2015
English celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was pushing a pea-guac-topped canape nearly 10 years ago.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2015
Thirty minutes before the first canape is delivered, though, she asks for no company in the kitchen: “I’m in concentrated mode,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2015
It consists of oysters, a canape, a fruit cocktail, grapefruit or something else of the same kind.
From Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 by Lillian Eichler Watson
“Well, once I saw her, I knew we weren’t here just to eat canapés and see Corvettes. We had to help her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Guests snacked on canapés and hors d’oeuvres before proceeding upstairs for the main course.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025
He grabbed a glass of wine and a few canapés.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Hundreds of executives, diplomats and foreign business chambers congregated at Hong Kong’s landmark M+ art museum over canapés and cocktails last month with a clear mission – reinvigorate appeal for the financial hub.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
There was no hotel suite reserved for the wait; there were no trays of canapés laid out, no television blaring from any corner.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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