Word: smorgasbord
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...oeuvre was not even a part of kitchen curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart from the dining room, later spreading to France, Italy and Spain. PETER BORR...
...metre boats are to sailing what smorgasbord is to the dinner table: a Scandinavian specialty. Marconi-rigged, almost twice the size of a Star boat and a quarter that of an America's Cup yacht, they cost about $10,000 each. Almost every Norwegian fiord contains a fleet of them. In the U. S., they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series...
...more practical, is "an index in which the recipes are arranged according to their chief ingredients, so that one can see . . . what dishes one can make from what one has on hand." Thus the possessor of a piece of liversausage will turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets...