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Canapé

A canapé (French: [kanape]) is a type of starter, a small, prepared, and often decorative food, consisting of a small piece of bread (sometimes toasted) or cracker, wrapped or topped with some savoury food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite.

This article is about the food. For other uses, see Canape (disambiguation).

Course

Base: one of crackers, bread, toast or puff pastry
Topping: savoury butters, spreads, or pastes

Name[edit]

The name comes from the French word for sofa,[1] drawing on the analogy that the garnish sits atop the bread as people do a sofa.[2]