James Beard

March, 1978

Plots an all Hours Tapas Party"I wouldn't class them as appetizers," muses peerless host James Beard, "and they're certainly not hors d'oeuvres. I suppose the closest you could come in English would be 'snacks.' But what snacks! Marvelous, absolutely delicious. So easy to serve and to eat."The subject is tapas, without which no Spaniard is happy to drink. "Tapa" literally means "lid." In their primal state tapas were mere slices of bread, laid across the t...