Article: Showpiece appetizers. (Holiday Entertaining special section)

Big, handsome, and make-ahead: those attributes make these showpiece appetizers ideal for entertaining. The first dish is a savory cheesecake pungent with the bite of Roquefort cheese but lightened up with a ricotta base. Spread it onto crisp radishes or crackers. The pastrami torte is assembled in layers in a little loaf pan; inverted and sliced, it reveals pepper cheese and pink ribbons of pastrami. Enjoy the torte in small portions on thin toasted bagel slices. And for a wild twist on pizza, bake falafel mix in a precooked crust. Cut the pizza into thin wedges to pick up and eat, warm or cool, with yogurt. The aromatically seasoned garbanzo flour in the falafel ...

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