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Food Trivia Quiz

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1) This American city got its name from the American Indian word for the wild garlic that grew around a nearby body of water.
Name this city.
* a) Saginaw
* b) Chattanooga
* c) Amarillo
* d) Chicago
* e) Syracuse
* f) Piscataway

2) On June 22, 1897 Queen Victoria celebrated her 60th year on the throne. What dessert was created for this occasion by Auguste Escoffier, who was the chef at the Carleton House in London at the time?

3) These 5 events all took place in the same year.
What year is it?
* Procter & Gamble is founded in Cincinnati.
* The outgoing U.S. president serves a 1,400 pound, 4 foot diameter cheese at a public reception in the White House's state dining room.
* Tetley Tea and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce are introduced in England.
* Delmonico's Restaurant reopens in New York after having been destroyed by fire 2 years ago.
* 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' are published.

4) In early Europe, this spice was used as a dye and an aromatic. It was burnt in sacrifice for its aroma, it was used in an aromatic hair oil, 'crocinum', which also contained wine and supposedly dragon's blood. The Romans mixed it with sweet wine and sprayed it in theaters, filling the air with its costly fragrance. A Cretan wall painting suggests that monkeys may have been trained to pick it. Grown in Iran from ancient times, the highest quality comes from southern Spain today. Look hard, there are 4 fairly good clues in there.
Name this spice.

5) The fruit of this plant is harvested in the immature stage, 50 to 70 days after planting. As a crop, they rank 12th in cash value among all vegetables grown in the United States. In the United States, each person consumes more than four pounds of them each year. It is just as popular in northern and eastern European cookery as in Mediterranean countries. Stuffed ones are popular in Poland. Columbus brought the first ones to the New World, planting them in Haiti in 1494. There are reddish brown, green, long, egg shaped, smooth and rough skinned varieties.
Name this vegetable.

6) Native to both Europe and the Americas, today this fruit is cultivated in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida, but it is rarely cultivated from seed. The U.S. produces 75% of the world's crop, and it is an important crop in Canada, Australia, Japan, and parts of Africa.
Its name is very old, dating back to at least 1000 AD, There are many theories, but no one really knows for sure how, why and where its name originated. The Romans valued it for its supposed medicinal properties, such as healing loose teeth and treating stomach problems.
This fruit is technically an enlarged pulpy receptacle bearing numerous achenes, or in other words an aggregate of numerous nutlets distributed on an enlarged, pulpy, scarlet receptacle.
It is 90% water and contains more vitamin C than an equal quantity of lemons or oranges.
Name this fruit.

7) When this St. Louis housewife married her lawyer husband in 1899, he had to teach her how to cook. In 1931 she published a private edition of a cookbook to give to her grown children. In it she gave minute details for each recipe. In 1936, at age 60 she published it for sale to the public. Her daughter and grandson have co-authored several new editions, and chances are pretty good that you have owned a copy of her cookbook yourself.
Who was this housewife and what cookbook did she publish?

8) In 1959, eighteen-year-old Frank Carney of Wichita, Kansas reads a story in the Saturday Evening Post about what teenagers and college students like to eat. He borrows $600 from his mother, finds someone to teach him how to cook, and goes into business. By 1975 the company is doing over $100 million is sales.
Name the company this enterprising 18 year-old founded?

9) Where did the the wine industry get started in the U.S.?
* a) California
* b) New York
* c) Ohio
* d) Florida
* e) Michigan

Answers

1) d) The Windy City - Chicago, from the local Indian word 'chicagaoua' referring to the wild garlic that grew around Lake Michigan. The meaning of this word has been disputed by some though; two other possibilities are skunk or powerful.

2) It was Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and the dessert was Cherries Jubilee.
It consists of cherries flamed tableside with sugar and Kirsch (cherry brandy) spooned over vanilla ice cream.

3) 1837. (President Andrew Jackson served the cheese, and Charles Dickens wrote the 'Pickwick Papers'.)

4) Saffron.
The 4 fairly good clues:
* 'costly' - it is the most expensive spice.
* 'used as a dye' the tiniest pinch colors rice yellow.
* why train monkeys to pick it? - because it is labor intensive to pick - 80,000 flowers to make a pound.
* the highest quality comes from Spain.

5) The cucumber.

6) The Strawberry.

7) The author was Irma Rombauer, and her cookbook is 'The Joy of Cooking'.

8) Pizza Hut.

9) c) The first wine maker in the U.S. was Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio. He fermented Catawba grapes in the 1820s, and within 10 years Ohio was established as the center of American wine making. New Yorkers soon got into wine making, and eclipsed Ohio production.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 07/13/2009

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