canapé
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Coronation music, including Hubert Parry's anthem I Was Glad will be followed by a champagne and canapé reception in the town's Priory Centre.
From BBC ● May 5, 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
You are what you eat,” she said, after nibbling on a caviar canapé.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 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
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 Hiller, Elizabeth O.
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
She and Peter were in the pantry, deep in the manufacture of a certain sort of canape.
From Sisters by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
“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
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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