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Food Trivia Quiz

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1) This fruit of this palm tree vies to be a rival of the coconut, but is restricted to the less humid regions of the tropics. As a source of food, it strongly resembles the coconut in various ways. The large black fruit (nuts) growing in clusters at the base of the leaves, contain a refreshing juice similar to coconut water. The soft white kernel of the young fruit is eaten fresh or may be cooked.
The sap of the tree is used to produce 'toddy' and 'jaggery.' The white flesh is increasingly being found canned, as fruit cocktail along with other tropical fruit. Name this palm tree and its fruit.

2) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year was it?
- S&H Green Stamp are issued for the first time.
- Fannie Merritt Farmer publishes her famous cookbook.
- The American Public Health Assoc. blames drunkenness on "bad cooking, unpalatable meals, and the extravagant use of ice."
- Tootsie Rolls are introduced - the first penny candy to be wrapped in paper.
- Cracker Jack is introduced.
- Michelob Beer is introduced. It is sold only on draft until 1961.
- The Olympia Brewing Company is founded in Washington state.

3) This drink was supposedly created at the request of Lady Randolph Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill's mother), while she was entertaining politician Samuel J. Tilden at a club in New York City in 1874.

4) How many cans of food are produced worldwide each year?
a) 200 million
b) 500 million
c) 1 billion
d) 200 billion
e) 500 billion

5) In 1902 Dr. Alexander P. Anderson developed a new method for cooking rice. What was it?

6) What was the first ready to eat cereal?
a) granola
b) raisin bran
c) granula
d) corn flakes
e) wheaties

7) This herb is a member of the coffee family. It contains a milk curdling enzyme, and one of its names comes from its ability to curdle milk for cheese making. The leaves and stems also yield a yellow dye which was used to color cheese and butter. It is also used as a mattress stuffing. What are the 2 names of this herb?

Answers

1) The Sea Apple from the Palmyra or sugar palm.
(From 'Tropical Fruit' by Desmond Tate)

2) The year is 1896.

3) The name of the drink and the name of the club is The Manhattan.

4) d) About 200 billion cans of food are produced in the world each year.

5) Dr. Anderson developed Puffed Rice in NYC in 1902, which was introduced to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.

6) c) Granula NOT Granola. James C. Jackson, a follower of Sylvester Graham (who praised the virtues of whole grain flour, which was soon to be called Graham flour) developed what he called 'Granula' in 1863. Granula was Graham flour dough baked into dry loaves, broken into chunks and baked again, and then ground into still smaller chunks. This was the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal. (C.W. Post used basically the same recipe for Post's Grape Nuts in 1898). By the way, 'Granola' (baked wheat, oats and corn nuggets) was developed in 1877 by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (before he formed the cereal company with his brother). He originally called his cereal 'Granula', but was sued by Jackson, and they compromised on the name 'Granola'.

7) The herb is Cheese Rennet (for its ability to curdle milk) and Lady's Bedstraw or Yellow Bedstraw related to its use as a mattress stuffing.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 05/19/2008

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