The Culinary World, with Chef James - Food Trivia Quiz

ArcaMax Publishing > Home & Garden > Recipes > The Culinary World, with Chef James

Your email address is safe with us. View our Privacy policy.

Food and Wine Pairing Guide:

Match the perfect wine with your recipes using our Wine Pairing guide

The Funnies:

Get free jokes, comics, and more! See them all on
our funnies page

Games:

Fun online games, quizzes, hangman and more on the games page

Food Trivia Quiz

FoodReference.com

1) The following events all took place during the same year.
What year was it?
* Gerber sells 2 million cans & jars of baby food per week.
* The London Co-Operative Society opens the 1st full size supermarket in Britain.
* 'The Unprejudiced Palate' by Angelo Pellegrini is published.
* Nestle's Quik chocolate milk milx is introduced in the U.S.
* Campbell Soup Co. introduces V-8 Cocktail Vegetable Juice.
* Britain ends bread rationing in July.
* The McDonald brother's turn their 8 year old hamburger stand into a self service restaurant.
* Chef and author ('Larousse Gastronomique') Prosper Montagne dies at age 83.

2) What family of plants includes the following:
anise, caraway, chervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, celery, parsnip, and goutweed, as well as the poisonous species poison hemlock, water hemlock and fool's parsley, and ornamentals sea holly, masterwort and blue lace flower?

3) Half and Half can refer to 2 totally unrelated liquids.
Can you name both, and what they consist of?

4) Paunch and pluck are the principal ingredients for what famous ethnic dish?

5) The cluster bean is most likely native to India. It is used as a vegetable, and for producing a food additive that is used as a thickener and stabilizer in commercial food processing. It has almost 8 times the thickening power as cornstarch, and is used in dressings, sauces and baked goods. It is also used in paper manufacturing, textiles, printing, cosmetics and even in pills to hold them together.
Name this food additive.
* a) chicle
* b) guar gum
* c) agar-agar
* d) gum tragacanth

6) Here are some Culinary Characters that represent various food products.
Do you know which ones are real people, and which ones are fictitious?
* A) Chef Boyardee.
* B) Aunt Jemima
* C) Dr Pepper
* D) Granny Smith (apple)
* E) Jack or Monterey Jack (cheese)
* F) Betty Crocker
* G) McIntosh (apple)

Answers

1) All of the events took place in 1948.

2) All of the plants listed are members of the Carrot or Parsley family.

3) In England, half and half is equal parts stout and ale.
In the U.S. half and half is equal parts light cream and milk.

4) Paunch and pluck are the principal ingredients for the Scottish Haggis . Paunch is the sheep's stomach, used as the casing, and pluck is the heart, liver and lungs used for the filling.

5) b) Guar gum.

6)
A) There really was a Chef Boyardee, and believe it or not he was an excellent chef. Hector Boyardi (the original spelling) was born in Italy in 1898, and began working in kitchens at 11 years of age. By the age of 17 he was well known for his culinary talents, and in 1915 he moved to New York to join his brother, who was a waiter at the Plaza Hotel. Hector joined the kitchen staff of the Plaza, and after working in various hotel kitchen in New York (including the Ritz-Carlton), the Greenbriar in West Virginia (where he catered President Woodrow Wilson's wedding), and finally in Cleveland at the new Hotel Winton. Three years later he opened his own restaurant, Il Giardino d'Italia, where his spaghetti sauce was so popular, he was soon selling it in milk bottles for his customers to take home. He was soon producing the sauce in an adjacent building, expanded to include dry pasta and packets of cheese to go with the sauce. As the sauce business expanded, he Americanized his name to Chef Boyardee, and moved production to Pennsylvania, where the company later merged with American Home Products (now International Home Foods). He worked with the company until his death in 1985.

B) Both. This was a trick question. The name 'Aunt Jemima' came from a song in a vaudville show. When R.T. Davis (owner of the company) debuted his new pancake mix he hired Nancy Green to cook & serve pancakes at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nancy Green and the pancake mix were both big hits at the fair, and Green was awarded a medal and proclaimed 'Pancake Queen' by fair officials. R.T. Davis signed her to a lifetime contract.

C) No one knows where the name came from or if there really was a Dr. Pepper. The company has collected over a dozen different stories of the name's origin.

D) Real. There was a Granny Smith - Maria (or Mary) Ann Smith (died 1870), an Australian gardener. Smith had found a seedling growing where she had thrown out some apples, she began using the fruit for cooking, and was soon marketing the fruit. It is believed to have originally come from the seed of a French Crab apple.

E) Real. Yes there really was a Monterey Jack. The most widely told story of the cheese's origin, is that it was first made in Monterey, California and named for 19th century California land owner David Jacks.

F) No Virginia, there was no Betty Crocker. In 1921 advertising manager Sam Gale of General Mills created fictional spokeswoman Betty Crocker so that correspondence to housewives could go out with her signature.

G) Real. McIntosh Apples were discovered on a single mutated plant in the late 1700's by Canadian John McIntosh, in Dundas County, Ontario.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 09/18/2009

Share this Story