Food Trivia Quiz FoodReference.com 1) After a career as an actor and radio announcer, then a stint at teaching French and English in a New Jersey day school, this 37 year old Oregon born, New York caterer published his first cookbook in 1940, 'Hors d'Oeuvres and Canapes: With a Key to the Cocktail Party'. Can you guess who this was?
2) In what year did margarine consumption overtake butter in the U.S.? a) 1957 b) 1916 c) 1965 d) 1948 e) 1933 3) The year is 1768 and Benjamin Franklin is in London pleading the case of the colonies. He writes to his daughter, asking her to send him some of the foods he misses from home. What were the 5 foods Franklin said he was homesick for in his letter? 4) In 1927, Daniel Gerber, a local food processor in Michigan, was told by his doctor to feed his sick daughter Sally strained peas. They were available commercially, but they were expensive, and only sold in a a few parts of the country. In addition, there was one other problem he faced when buying strained baby foods. What was this other problem that helped inspire him to start Gerber Baby Foods company? 5) In 1846, 65,000 tons, or 175 shiploads of this product were shipped by a Boston company. Large quantities were exported to the Far East, where it is sold at high prices in exchange for cheap silk, which brought high prices in the U.S. What valuable product was in these 175 ships? a) whale oil b) seaweed c) lobster d) beef e) ice 6) In 1648 the Massachusetts Bay Colony had poor harvests, and were saved from starving by eating what abundant species? 7) In 1945 Japan organized school children to gather what item to use for making flour due to dwindling stocks of wheat and rice? 8) In 1981 the recipe for Hunt's Tomato Sauce was changed due to consumer demand. What was the change? 9) In the first half of the 19th century, wearing a coffee sack for a shirt, this wilderness loving, eccentric, bearded man walked hundreds of miles each year in the Midwestern wilderness. In exchange for meals and a place to sleep he would give his hosts some seeds, and read from his Bible and from a book by Kierkegaard (a Danish philosopher). What was the nickname and real name of this legendary, odd gentleman? 10) On January 6, 1940 Britain's Ministry of Food began rationing control over certain foods. What 3 foods were the first to be controlled? milk - butter - sugar - bread - cheese - potatoes - eggs - bacon flour - tea - coffee - meat Answers 1) James Beard. 2) a) 1957. Per capita consumption in the U.S. was 8.6 pounds of margarine and 8.3 pounds of butter. 3) Franklin requested his daughter to send him apples, cranberries, dried peaches, buckwheat flour and cornmeal. 4) Strained baby foods were only sold at pharmacies and you needed a doctor's prescription. 5) e) The Tudor Ice Company of Boston shipped ice to the Far East. They also shipped large quantities of ice to the Southern states in the U.S. 6) Luckily, they had been unsuccessful in their attempts to eradicate the passenger pigeons in the area. The huge flocks of passenger pigeons provided enough food for them to avoid starvation. 7) School children were mobilized to gather more than 1 million tons of acorns to use in making flour. 8) Hunt increased the number of tomatoes in each can of sauce from 4 to 4 1/2 because consumer demand was for thicker sauce. 9) John Chapman, otherwise known as Johnny Appleseed. 10) The first 3 foods to be rationed were butter, sugar and bacon. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
