[Sca-cooks] Trivia

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Interesting trivia from this week's Food ezine.
Christianna




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The protein in almonds is more like the proteins in human breast milk of all
the seeds and nuts, which is why it is the choice of the Canadian College of
Naturopathic Medicine as the base for its baby formula.

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------------------------FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ------------------------

1) There are over 450 varieties of this 'nut', many of which have been used
for food. They are native to all continents except Australia. What nut is
this?

2) Cheese has been colored with various plant substances for hundreds of
years. Yellow/orange coloring may have originally been added to cheese made
with winter milk from cows eating hay to match the orange hue (from vitamin
A) of cheeses made with milk from cows fed on green plants. Can you name 3
plant substances which have been used to color cheese yellow/orange?

3) This blue veined cheese, was first made around 1720, and sold at the Bell
Inn in a village in  Huntingdonshire. It owes its name and reputation to the
village, but it is not actually made there. What is the name of the village,
and the cheese?

4) This traditional dish of a central European country can trace its origins
back to the ninth century Magyar shepherds.  Originally it consisted of
chunks of meat and onions, slowly cooked until all the liquid was boiled
away, and then dried in the sun.  The meat could then be used to prepare a
stew by boiling it in water.  What is considered the key ingredient was
added to the recipe in the 18th-century. What is the name of this dish, the
country of origin and the key ingredient?

5) Before setting up the a fast-food restaurant chain, this man was a high
school dropout,  ambulance driver, jazz pianist, Florida real-estate
salesman, radio station manager, and paper cup salesman. What is his name
and the name of his fast-food restaurant chain?

6) This 'fruit' will not ripen on the tree. They must be picked from the
tree to initiate ripening because the leaves supply a substance that
prevents ripening. The best way to store them is to leave them on the tree;
they will store for 7 months or more when left on the tree. What is the name
of this 'fruit'?

7) It is believed that the sheep's milk cheese that Polyphemus the Cyclops
made in his caves in Homer's 'Odyssey' was most likely an early form of this
cheese. You are really good if you can name this cheese.

8) This sweetest of all fruits has a 55% sugar content. The tree has no
blossoms because the flower is inside the fruit. What is this physically
unusual fruit?

9) Native to the Mediterranean areas and the Middle East, this vegetable was
used as a flavoring by the ancient Greeks and Romans and as a medicine by
the ancient Chinese. It was first cultivated in Europe for medicinal
purposes. Cultivation of the plant for food was first recorded in France in
1623, and was probably developed there or in Italy.  By the early part of
the 18th century, there had been improvement of the wild type previously
transported to Italy, France, and England, and as early as 1726, the plant
was being used in England to flavor soup and stews. The modern variety we
all now know, was first cultivated in Kalamazoo Michigan, in 1874.   Name
this common vegetable.

10) First made at the beginning of the 20th century, this candy was named
after a race horse of the time. Name the candy and the racehorse.







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-------------------ANSWERS TO FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ------------------

1) Acorn.

2) Annatto seed, carrot juice and marigold petals.

3) Stilton.

4) Hungarian goulash (gulyás) is the traditional stew of Hungary and Paprika
was added in the 18th century.

5) Ray Kroc; McDonald's.

6) Avocado.

7) Feta cheese.

8) Figs are the sweetest of all fruits, with a 55% sugar content. The flower
of the fig is inside the fruit, so there are no blossoms on fig trees. Sort
of like an inside out strawberry.

9) Celery, and the common modern variety is Pascal celery.

10) The candy is lollipop, the race horse was Lolly Pop.