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Food Trivia Quiz

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1) Name this vegetable:
In ancient Egypt, paintings of this vegetable appear on the inner walls of the pyramids and in the tombs of both the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom. It is mentioned as a funeral offering and they are depicted on the banquet tables of the great feasts. They were shown upon the altars of the gods. Frequently, a priest is pictured holding them in his hand or covering an altar with a bundle of their leaves or roots. In mummies, these vegetables have frequently been found in the pelvic regions of the body, in the thorax, flattened against the ears and in front of the collapsed eyes. They have been found on the chest, and some have been found attached to the soles of the feet and along the legs. King Ramses IV, who died in 1160 B.C., was entombed with this vegetable in his eye sockets.
In India as early as the sixth century B.C., the famous medical treatise Charaka - Sanhita celebrates them as medicine - a diuretic, good for digestion, the heart, the eyes and the joints.
Likewise, Dioscorides, a Greek physician in first century A.D., noted several medicinal uses of this vegetable. The Greeks used them to fortify athletes for the Olympic Games.
The Romans ate them regularly and carried them on journeys to their provinces in England and Germany. Before he was overcome and killed by the volcano's heat and fumes, Pliny the Elder catalogued the Roman beliefs about the efficacy of them to cure vision, induce sleep, heal mouth sores, dog bites, toothaches, dysentery and lumbago.

2) Name this fruit:
The scientific name (Blighia sapida) comes from its association with Captain William Bligh, of the H.M.S. Bounty ('Mutiny on the Bounty'), who is thought to have carried the fruit from tropical West Africa (possibly Guinea) to the Caribbean Islands, and specifically to Jamaica in 1793. Since then, it has become a major feature of various Caribbean cuisines, and is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. It is a relative of the lychee and the longan. The fruit itself is not edible - only the fleshy arils around the seeds are edible. The remainder of the fruit, including the seeds are poisonous. The fruit must only be picked after the fruit has opened naturally, and must be fresh and not overripe. Immature and overripe ones are also poisonous.

3) What flavorless, colorless oil has more polyunsaturates than any other oil, a very high smoke point (which makes it good for deep frying), and doesn't solidify when refrigerated?

4) What popular snack food was invented by George Crumb, chef at Moon's Lake House in New York in the late 19th century?

5) These dried flower buds are picked and dried before they open. The tree is a member of the myrtle family and is native to the Spice Islands of Indonesia (Moluccas).

6) 99% of the U.S. blueberry crop comes from one state, and 90% from just one county. Can you name the state, and the county?

7) In 1849, Henderson Lewelling traveled from Oregon to San Francisco with 100 of these, which he sold for $5 each to gold prospectors. What was he selling?
a) potatoes b) pans c) chickens d) apples e) strawberries

8) Yuban brand coffee was developed in the early 20th century by coffee merchant John Arbuckle. Do you know how he came up with the name Yuban?

9) In 1191, England's Richard the Lion Hearted leads the 3rd Crusade in a victory over Saracen leader Saladin. As a peace offering, Saladin presents Richard with a sweet treat made with a special ingredient from Lebanon. Can you name the special ingredient, and the name the treat is known by today?

10) The following events all took place in the same year - name the year:
* Friskees introduced the first dry cat food
* Rice-A-Roni goes on sale. Produced by Vince DeDomenico from an Armenian family recipe.
* Cocoa Puffs is introduced by General Mills; it contains 43% sugar.
* Cocoa Krispies is introduced by Kellogg’s - it's 45.9% sugar.
* There are 4,063 drive in movie screens nationwide.
* Jolly Green Giant was born. He appears on TV, but he looks like a monster and scares kids. So they lighten him up a bit, added 'Ho, ho, ho' and add a catchy jingle.
* Sweet n' Low was introduced as an artificial sweetener (granulated saccharin, dextrose, cream of tartar and calcium silicate). It received U.S. trademark patent no. 1,000,000.
* Frank Carney, 18 years old, reads about the pizza fad with college students. He borrows $600 from his mother and opens the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas.
* McDonald's sold its 100 millionth hamburger.

Answers

1) Onions.

2) Ackee, akee, or achee. Salt Cod and Akee is the national dish of Jamaica. Salt cod is sautéed with ackee, pork fat, onions, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, garnished with crisp bacon and fresh tomatoes.

3) Safflower oil.

4) Saratoga chips, better known today as potato chips.

5) Cloves.

6) Maine produces 99% of the blueberry crop, and 90% (30 million pounds) comes from Washington County alone.

7) d) Lewelling sold his first crop of 100 Oregon apples for $5 each.

8) Yuban coffee was developed as a YUletide BANquet for John Arbuckle's friends and customers.

9) Saladin served Richard 'charbet' made with snow from the Lebanese mountains and flavored with fruit. Known today as Sorbet in France, Sorbetto in Italy.

10) 1958.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 04/07/2008

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