Social Appetizer Recipes Blog

This Social Appetizer Recipes Blog is my mini-journal about different foods and appetizer recipes around the world, including their social history. It...

-- lets you know whenever any new Web pages appear on Social Appetizers, sharing with you new recipes and their history.

-- gives you excellent ideas on how to prepare quick and make ahead appetizers for all kinds of occasions.

-- shares all kind of intriguing stories and anecdotes about the foods we eat.

-- points out some great culinary tours and cooking vacations you can in different parts of the world

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Quick and Easy Appetizers | Sweet and Salty party nuts

These quick and easy appetizers are a sure way to make a quick, delicious party appetizers that your guests will absolutely love. These easy party appetizers can also serve as a great snack!

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Quick Chicken Recipes

This succulent recipe is one of the quick chicken recipes that you can prepare before a party. The sweet and sour adds an extra tang to these easy party appetizers.

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Quick Chicken Recipes

This succulent recipe is one of the quick chicken recipes that you can prepare before a party. The sesame seeds add an extra umph to these easy party appetizers.

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Easy Party Appetizers

This is one of the make ahead recipes and easy party appetizers that you can cook within a few minutes provided you have marinaded the prawns. It is both delicious and easy to make.

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Easy Party Appetizers

These easy party appetizers make yummy tarts within thirty minutes. You can easily prepare them before a party and does not require too much labor.

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Sweet Potatoes Recipes

Sweet potatoes recipes are great easy appetizer recipes for a party. Sweet potato recipes can serve as a healthy substitute for potato recipes are often high in starch content.

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Easy Party Appetizers

This is a delicious and easy party appetizers that you can make before a party. It is quite appetizing and quick to make.

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Meat Pie Recipes

This is one the simple meat pie recipes that will work wonderfully when you are hosting a party. Delicious and easy!

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Chickpea Recipes | Chickpea and Olive Appetizer

This delicious recipe is one of the very simple chickpea recipes that are quite common in the Middle Eastern diet. Try it when you have limited food items in the house and want to cook on the fly.

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Middle Eastern Food Recipes | Middle Eastern Appetizers

These Middle Eastern food recipes are the perfect appetizers to feed your family or to your friends at a party.

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Indian Vegetable Recipe | Enjoying Quick Indian Vegetarian recipes

An Indian vegetable recipe is sure to be spicy to the palate and a healthy, easy alternative to meat. Popular in vegetarian diets, the subcontinent has a wide variety of Indian vegetarian recipes.

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Savory Chutney Recipes | Low fat snacks

Chutney recipes make great low-fat snacks to serve finger foods or liven up entrees. Chutneys can also be eaten as relish-like condiments akin to salsas.

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Superb Italian Appetizer Recipes

These Italian appetizer recipes show the love and affection the Italians have for their cuisine. These light meals are made with great pride and enthusiasm as daily part of Italian life.

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Useful Links

These are some relevant and / or interesting links for this web project.

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History of Indian food | 1857 Indian rebellion against British

History of Indian food contains many stories about the social reactions against foods forbidden by the major religions. The cows are too sacred for Hindus to eat. Pigs are rejected by the Muslims.

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Hummus Recipes | Easy Hummus Recipe

Hummus recipes make a dip or spread, called “Hummus”, that is a popular delicacy in traditional Middle Eastern meal. Hummus is the Arabic word for “chickpea” which is widely known as Garbanzo bean.

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Fried Eggplant Recipe | Salatat Bathinjan

This delicious fried eggplant recipe is common in Middle Eastern countries. Eggplant, often called "the poor man's meat" or "the poor man's caviar" is one of the staple foods of the Arab world.

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Meatball Appetizers | Kibbeh

These popular, low-carb meatball appetizers are a Levantine Arab dish made of burghul wheat and chopped meat. A popular variety is torpedo-shaped fried meatballs stuffed with minced beef or lamb.

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Meatball Appetizers | Meat Patties with Halloumi Filling

These meatball appetizers make great meat patties with halloumi cheese filling. They are well known in the Mediterranean, especially in the Middle East.

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Chickpea Recipes | Fried Chickpeas

Chickpea recipes, like this fried chickpeas, make up one of the staples of Middle Eastern and Arab diets. This is a quick and easy appetizer to make if you are craving chickpeas or legumes.

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Falafel Recipe

Certain food products become symbol on national identity. Falafel recipe is one such recipe that has straddled between national identities, sometimes fraught with conflicts.

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Eggplant dip recipe | Baba Ganoush

There's a legend that this classic Arab eggplant dip recipe got its name because, loosely translated, it means "the Iman wept." It is similar to hummus, but is made with eggplant instead of chickpeas.

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Tahini Recipe | Tahini and Chili Palmiers

Tahini is to Middle Easterners what peanut butter is to Americans. The paste used in this tahini recipe is made from sesame seeds, which date back to at least 5000 years.

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Mexican food history | Racial slurs like "beaners"

Mexican food history is incomplete without the mention of beans. Beans became so associated with Mexican traditions, that the term "beaner", from ‘bean eater’, alludes to Mexicans beloved frijolis.

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History of Corn | Native Corn and culture

History of corn in Native culture is deep. They revered corn over anything else on Earth and considered it so sacred that when they saw the Europeans feed it to the horses, they were appalled.

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History of Corn

History of corn is an intriguing tale of its migration, the slave trade, and the beginning of the "Butterfly people".

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History of Traditional Mexican Food

History of traditional Mexican food and appetizer recipes dates back to the times of indigenous native American communities in Mexico, including the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Toltecs, amongst many.

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History of Islamic food recipes

History of Islamic food recipes is well preserved because writing recipes was a passion amongst the Muslims. It is fascinating to look at works and writers who serve as the source of this history.

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Muslim Food History | Culinary Arts traditions is Muslim societies

Muslim food in the 13th century reflected the Muslim empire which ran from Baghdad in the east to Cordoba to the West. These traditions brought their influences to culinary exchange in Muslim empire.

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History of early Arab food

Early Arab food traditions reflects the geography of its region. With desserts, seas, nomadic and city lifestyles, early Arab food history is also a glimpse of diversity in early days of Islam.

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