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...newsitem under Miscellany re the Chicago search for ''hors d'oeuvres" synonyms interested me since every Chinese feast has a prefix of small variety dishes which one tries artfully to steer shy of. The only Chinese name for them that I can find would translate something like "Saucermites," "Midgettes,"-literally "tiny plates." Perhaps this nation's master chefs tried to find a name too, in former centuries, and finally showed the good judgment of giving the simple name they chose, letting the eater form his own opinion...
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