Appetizers and Snacks

Appears in

The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

Published 2005

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Just because we call something an appetizer doesn’t mean it must be served that way. In fact, the concept belongs more to restaurants, which have the staff and the time to serve meals in stages; at home we tend to put everything on the table at once.

The exceptions, of course, are dinner or cocktail parties, holidays, and other special occasions. For those, the dishes in this chapter become extremely important.

But if you think of them as light dishes, or those you can prepare in advance, or serve at lunch or late at night, or use as side dishes, everything in this chapter has value beyond the meal-starter. So it’s a section well worth browsing.