canapé
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Scott: I had to prove I could hand someone a canapé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
Spread fried bread with mixture and garnish with very thin strips of pimentos; set pimolas in center of each canapé.
From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller
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
No one likes the guy who has rattled through his achievements by the first canape, but, equally, no one remembers the person offering nothing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2016
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
If, however, you serve cocktails in the drawing room with the accompanying caviar or lettuce sandwiches, or if you serve a canape, do not repeat the latter as the opening of the dinner.
From How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration by Lillian B. Lansdown
“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
That's not to say Mr Hunt won't be tempted to offer around a little platter of canapés, a taster of what could come in the spring.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2023
He grabbed a glass of wine and a few canapés.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Lyra moved among them offering canapés or smiling sweetly and making pretty answers when they spoke to her.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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