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Food Trivia Quiz

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1) Herbert Hoover was not the first to promise a 'chicken in every pot.' Who said it first?

2) In the 16th century, boiled hedgehog was a common dish in what city?
a) London
b) Paris
c) New York
d) Berlin
e) Oslo

3) Despite a physical similarity and a frequent confusion with their names, yams and sweet potatoes are not even distantly related. They are in two different botanical families. What are yams actually related to?
a) alfalfa
b) lilies
c) grasses
d) carrots
e) radishes

4) Legend has it that tofu was developed by prince Liu An (179-122 B.C.) while searching for something. What was he searching for?

5) What type of oil did the ancient Egyptians use before olive oil was known?
a) radish seed oil
b) sunflower seed oil
c) avocado oil
d) whale oil
e) palm oil

6) All of the following events took place in the same year, what year was it?
* August Escoffier of London's Carleton House created Cherries Jubliee.
* Jerome M. Smucker of Orrville, Ohio made apple butter and his wife peddled it to local housewives. This was the beginning of the J.M. Smucker company, now the largest U.S. producer of jams, jellies and preserves.
* John T. Dorrance of the Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. developed his idea of double-strength 'condensed' soup, which gave Campbell's Soup dominance in the industry.
* The first known published recipe for brownies appeared in the Sears, Roebuck catalog. Housewives had been passing the recipe by word of mouth for some time.
* Grape Nuts was introduced as a health food by C.W. Post.
* Jell-O was introduced by cough medicine manufacturer Pearl B. Wait. His wife Mary named the product.
* Purina breakfast cereal was introduced by Robinson-Danforth, a St. Louis livestock food company.
* The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel opened in New York.
* H.P. Hood in Boston began distributing milk in glass bottles instead of ladling it from large cans in customers pitchers.
* More than 1.2 million pounds of sturgeon were landed in New York and New Jersey.

Answers

1) In a conversation with the Duke of Savoy, Henri IV of France (1553-1610) said "If God grants me a longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday."

2) b) According to Larousse Gastronomique, boiled hedgehog was a common dish in Paris in the 16th century. It tastes similar to wild rabbit.

3) b) and c) Yams are actually related to grasses and lilies.

4) Liu An was searching for a substance to help him achieve immortality. Liu An was the grandson of Liu Bang, the founding emperior of the Han Dynasty.

5) a) The ancient Egyptians used radish seed oil before olive oil was known.

6) The year is 1897.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 06/23/2008

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