Amazing Appetizers
During the holiday season, many of us will be looking for appetizer ideas for a variety of get-togethers. Hors d’oeuvres can be served as a first course of a meal or several finger foods can be combined to make up all the food for a party. Hors d’oeuvres are popular all over the world; you can add variety to your entertaining repertoire by learning about appetizers from different cultures:
- Tapas: Spain
- Amuse-bouches: France
- Antojitos: Mexico
- Samosas: India
- Antipasto: Italy
- Meze: Mediterranean and Middle East
- Dim sum: China
If you would like to see examples of appetizer preparation, the chefs from the Taste Culinary Classroom at Price Cutter will present the program “Hors d’oeuvres on the Fly” on Monday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library Center auditorium.
To find books about appetizers in the Springfield-Greene County Library’s collection, search the catalog under the subject appetizers. The following books in the library’s collection provide many appetizer recipes:
- 500 Appetizers: The Only Appetizer Compendium You’ll Ever Need by Susannah Blake
- Amuse-Bouche: Little Bites That Delight Before the Meal Begins by Rick Tramonto with Mary Goodbody
- The Appetizer Atlas: A World of Small Bites by Arthur L. Meyer and Jon M. Vann
- Bite by Bite: 100 Stylish Little Plates You Can Make for Any Party by Peter Callahan with Raquel Pelzel; forword by Martha Stewart
- Cesar: Recipes from a Tapas Bar by Olivier Said and James Mellgren with Maggie Pond; foreword by Jackson Browne
- Cocktail Food: 50 Finger Foods with Attitude by Mary Corpening Barber and Sara Corpening Whiteford, with Lori Lyn Narlock
- Hors d’oeuvre at Home by the Culinary Institute of America
- The New Appetizer: The Best Recipes for Today’s Party Starters by Taste of Home magazine
- New Flavors for Appetizers by Amy Sherman
- New Tapas: Today’s Best Bar Food from Spain by Fiona Dunlop
- Savoring Appetizers: Best Recipes from the Award-Winning International Cookbooks by Chuck Williams
- Small Bites: Tapas, Sushi, Mezze, Antipasta, and Other Finger Foods by Jennifer Joyce
- The Ultimate Appetizers Book: More Than 450 No-Fuss Nibbles and Drinks, Plus Simple Party Planning Tips by John Wiley & Sons Publishing
- The World in Bite Size: Tapas, Mezze, and Other Tasty Morsels by Paul Gayle
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