The amuse-bouche is the French word for appetiser. In Australia we tend to call these little pre-meal delicacies ‘hors d’oeuvres’, and to the Italians they are antipasto.   In France in the 15th century, hors d’oeuvres was used as an architectural term that referred to an outbuilding, the  'hors d’oeuvre', or 'outside the work'.  By the [...]