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> > Food Trivia Quiz > FoodReference.com > 1) This plant is a member of the Laurel family, which includes the bay > laurel and cinnamon tree. The likely origin is the area north of Mexico > City, and > there is evidence that the fruits were being gathered by humans by about > 8,000 B.C., and were being cultivated about 1,000 years later. This > fruit is a > high energy food, low in sugar, chock full of vitamins, and a good > source of both soluble and insoluble fiber. It is also particularly good > as a first > solid food for babies. > a) Pear > b) Avocado > c) Pea > d) Potato > e) Watermelon > > 2) Botanically, this is a strange plant - taxonomists are unable even to > agree into which family it belongs. The flowers are a bright, waxy > scarlet, and > the fruits are topped off with a persistent calyx that resembles a tall, > medieval crown which became a symbol of kingship in the Middle Ages: > Henry IV > adopted the fruit from the Moorish kings as his heraldic emblem, with > the motto "Sour, yet sweet," and it was Catherine of Aragon's device > when she married > Henry VIII. They were among the first fruits to be brought into > cultivation after grain-farming was invented in the Fertile Crescent > between the Nile and > the Indus about 10,000 years ago. Is this: > a) Fig > b) Date > c) Pomegranate > d) Apricot > e) Mulberry > > 3) This premier fruit crop of the temperate regions of the modern world > can ripen at higher latitudes than almost any other, except the > cloudberry. It is > a self-incompatible species, which means that you need two trees growing > near each other to achieve pollination. The fruits need 900 cold hours > to produce > flowers in the spring and on the whole, they dislike the subtropics and > tropics. The 11th labor of Hercules involved a specific type of this > fruit. Name > this fruit. > > 4) a) Do you know who is generally considered to have invented Lemon > Custard and when? > b) Who invented lemon meringue pie? > > 5) a) Does corn always have an odd or an even number of rows on each > ear? > b) Why? > c) How many pieces of silk are there on each ear? > > 6) Born during the Great Depression, this snack treat was developed by > bakers who tried scores of recipes before they were satisfied with the > results. They > were first manufactured in the company's north Philadelphia bakery, and > introduced to the public in Philadelphia and Baltimore on November 21, > 1934, at > 19 cents per box. Success was immediate. In the first year of > production, the company baked 5 billion of this snack treat, about 40 > for every man, woman > and child in America in 1935. They remain a best seller in its class > today. Can you name this snack treat? > > 7) These plants, native to Central and South America are grown > worldwide, both as garden flowers and for culinary uses. The brilliant > yellow, orange or > red flowers and peppery flavored leaves are used in salads. The flowers > may also be chopped and used to flavor butters, cream cheese and > vinegar; the immature > flower buds and seed pods may be pickled and used like capers. There is > also a species found in the Andes which is a vegetable tuber crop. Can > you name > this plant? > > 8) Nectarines are: > a) A fuzzless variety of peach. > b) A variety of plum. > c) A cross between a peach and a plum. > > 9) What percentage of bread was baked in the home in 1910 in the U.S.? > a) 100% b) 85% c) 70% d) 55% e) 40% > > 10) This product is introduced in 1911 and is advertised as "a > Scientific Discovery Which Will Affect Every Kitchen In America" but > women are often reluctant > to accept free 1 1/2 pound cans of the product. The company issues a > pamphlet in Yiddish when it finds that many of its biggest initial users > are Orthodox > Jews. The product gains more widespread commercial success during the > First World War due to shortages of another product. Can you name this > product and > why it was initially popular with Orthodox Jews? > > Answers > > 1) b) Avocado. > > 2) c) Pomegranate. > > 3) Apples. The 11th labor of Hercules was bringing home the Golden Apple > of the Hesperides out of the mythical West. > > 4) 2) The Quakers receive credit for inventing lemon custard in the late > 1700s. Philadelphian Elizabeth Coane Goodfellow, a pastry chef, > businesswoman, > and cooking school founder, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1806, took > lemon custard to another level when she invented lemon meringue pie. > > ( > The Food Journal of Lewis & Clark : Recipes for an Expedition, > by Mary Gunderson) > > 5) a) Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear. > b) A corn ear is actually an inflorescence that produces nearly 1,000 > female flowers. These flowers, or potential kernels, are arranged in an > even number > of rows (usually from 8 to about 22 rows). Row number is always an even > number because corn spikelets are borne in pairs, and each spikelet > produces two > florets: one fertile and one sterile. Stress at a particular stage in > development could theoretically produce an ear with an odd number of > rows - but I > believe if you looked under a microscope, you would find an unseen row > that failed to develop fully. Most things in nature have an even number > of rows > or lines. Watermelon has an even number of stripes, cantaloupe, etc. > Think of it this way. One cell divides into 2 - as cell division > continues, there > is always an even number. > c) There is one piece of silk for each kernel. > > 6) Ritz Crackers, created by the National Biscuit Company, now called > Nabisco. > > 7) Common garden Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) also called Indian Cress, > Mexican Cress, Peru Cress and Jesuit's Cress (not to be confused with > the genus > Nasturtium, which is Watercress). > > 8) A nectarine is a fuzzless variety of peach. It is NOT a cross between > a peach and a plum. > Peach seeds may occasionally grow into trees that bear nectarines, and > nectarine seeds may grow into trees that bear either nectarines or > peaches. It is > not possible to know which fruit will grow on trees grown from nectarine > seeds, so branches from trees that produce nectarines are grafted onto > peach trees > to grow nectarines commercially. > > 9) c) 70% of the bread in the U.S. was baked at home in 1910. > > 10) Crisco, introduced by Proctor & Gamble. It was the first solid > hydrogenated vegetable shortening, and since it contained neither lard > nor butter (meat > & dairy) it could be used at any meal without violating kosher dietary > laws. It later became more widely accepted due to wartime shortages of > lard. > > Courtesy of > FoodReference.com. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
