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
Kate Spade, Gina Gershon, Parker Posey and others inhabited the pond of posing and canapé chomping as well.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2013
With another glance at the canapé, Lady Clifford turned towards the doctor.
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
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
After the air display, around 650 people will attend a lunchtime canape reception at the palace.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 28, 2011
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
No wonder Woodward is still writing all these books; the guy’s just trying to enjoy his canapés, and the country’s top military officer waltzes over to share choice content like this.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
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
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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