Now, she says, this African-American Southern food staple is everywhere -- and served thinly sliced and fried as a bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or soup garnish.

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Her regular collaborator, Peter Callahan, who makes bite-size foods, helped on the hors d'oeuvres, which included smoothies, "relay bars, " little smoked-salmon fish with wasabi eyes and caviar on crackers in the shape of life-savers.

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"Tropic Thunder, " which was co-written and directed by Mr. Stiller, is like a dinner whose hors d'oeuvres are far more satisfying and well-composed than the slightly warmed-over main course.

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Then, enjoy complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the R-Club Lounge before heading to your VIP table at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse.

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Champagne and all sorts of gourmet hors d'oeuvres were served throughout the two-hour flight.

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The main Treasure Gallery most visitors are likely to see provides a hefty hors d'oeuvre portion of ancient gold works before segueing into various latter-day Czarist excesses (the diamond-crusted horse blanket, gift of a Turkish sultan, comes to mind).

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