Wow great Post, many Thanks Jan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:07 PM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Food Trivia Quiz
> > 1) Herbert Hoover was not the first to promise a 'chicken in every pot.' > Who said it first? > > 2) In the 16th century, boiled hedgehog was a common dish in what city? > a) London > b) Paris > c) New York > d) Berlin > e) Oslo > > 3) Despite a physical similarity and a frequent confusion with their > names, yams and sweet potatoes are not even distantly related. They are > in two different > botanical families. What are yams actually related to? > a) alfalfa > b) lilies > c) grasses > d) carrots > e) radishes > > 4) Legend has it that tofu was developed by prince Liu An (179-122 B.C.) > while searching for something. What was he searching for? > > 5) What type of oil did the ancient Egyptians use before olive oil was > known? > a) radish seed oil > b) sunflower seed oil > c) avocado oil > d) whale oil > e) palm oil > > 6) All of the following events took place in the same year, what year > was it? > * August Escoffier of London's Carleton House created Cherries Jubliee. > * Jerome M. Smucker of Orrville, Ohio made apple butter and his wife > peddled it to local housewives. This was the beginning of the J.M. > Smucker company, > now the largest U.S. producer of jams, jellies and preserves. > * John T. Dorrance of the Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. developed his > idea of double-strength 'condensed' soup, which gave Campbell's Soup > dominance in the > industry. > * The first known published recipe for brownies appeared in the Sears, > Roebuck catalog. Housewives had been passing the recipe by word of mouth > for some > time. > * Grape Nuts was introduced as a health food by C.W. Post. > * Jell-O was introduced by cough medicine manufacturer Pearl B. Wait. > His wife Mary named the product. > * Purina breakfast cereal was introduced by Robinson-Danforth, a St. > Louis livestock food company. > * The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel opened in New York. > * H.P. Hood in Boston began distributing milk in glass bottles instead > of ladling it from large cans in customers pitchers. > * More than 1.2 million pounds of sturgeon were landed in New York and > New Jersey. > > Answers > > 1) In a conversation with the Duke of Savoy, Henri IV of France > (1553-1610) said "If God grants me a longer life, I will see to it that > no peasant in my > kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday." > > 2) b) According to > Larousse Gastronomique, > boiled hedgehog was a common dish in Paris in the 16th century. It > tastes similar to wild rabbit. > > 3) b) and c) Yams are actually related to grasses and lilies. > > 4) Liu An was searching for a substance to help him achieve immortality. > Liu An was the grandson of Liu Bang, the founding emperior of the Han > Dynasty. > > 5) a) The ancient Egyptians used radish seed oil before olive oil was > known. > > 6) The year is 1897. > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1524 - Release Date: 6/28/2008 > 19:42 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
