[Sca-cooks] A little diversion

[Vincent Cuenca]

In a fit of boredom I came up with the following food geek quiz.  I know,
it's sorta off topic, but not nearly as bad as the pirate name one.  :-)

Are you a food geek?

Take the following test and determine your personal level of culinary
geekdom.

Do you, or Have you ever:

1. Lectured complete strangers on the uses of unfamiliar foodstuffs?

2. Know what "rocket" is?

3. Sneered at the lazy yuppie scum who buy premade polenta at the
supermarket?

4. Grown your own herbs?

5. Grown your own vegetables?

6. Grown your own wheat?

7. Foregone buying ice cream because the soup bones have taken over your
freezer?

8. Made your own demi-glace?

9. Own five mortars and pestles, but can't find your pepper mill?

10. Consider your mother a heretic for buying premade pie crusts?

11. Subscribe to seven cooking magazines but mooch newspapers from your
coworkers?

12. Stayed up late reading Escoffier, Brillat-Savarin, or Julia Child?

13. Say to yourself, "I can cook better than this" at a trendy restaurant?

14. Know the difference between a china cap and a chinoise?

15. Fantasize about meeting Charles Ranhofer, James Beard, or Martino da
Como?

16. Brag about your 10-inch Dick?

17. Know what the last question was about, you vulgar little creature, you?

18. Have a special carrying case for your knives, sharpening steel,
whetstone, and knife oil?

19. Spend hours in the "Used Equipment" section of the restaurant supply
store?

20. Kept a sourdough starter alive for more than two months?

Give yourself a point for every positive answer.

Scores:

1-5 points.  You can barely cook, and probably don't care too much.  You
probably live on restaurant food and Cheerios.

6-10 points.  You can cook, and have some clue about technique.  Of course,
you also have a social life.

11-15 points.  You can definitely cook, and are quite knowledgeable about
technique and history.  Your friends vie for dinner invitations.

16-20 points.  You are utterly lost.  Hie thee hence to the Culinary
Institute of America before your head explodes.

Personally, I score about a 19.  Mind you, this test is geared towards
amateurs, though the professionals among us will probably come up with other
questions.

Just a bit of silliness...

Enjoy!

Vicente
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