CUISINE

Question 1

CHUTNEY

Answer 1

A mixture containing fruit, spices, sugar and vinegar, eaten cold with meat or cheese

Question 2

GORGONZOLA

Answer 2

Veined PDO Italian blue cheese - made from unskimmed cow’s milk

Question 3

GOURD

Answer 3

Fleshy, large fruit with har skin

Question 4

LIQUORICCE

Answer 4

A sweet chewy arromatic black substance made by evaporation from the ice of a root and used as a sweet and in med

Question 5

‘SUC-CO-TASH

Answer 5

Veggie dish that consists of cooked maize kernels and butter beans mixed together

Question 6

‘VIN-DA-LOO

Answer 6

Indian curry hot

Question 7

WATER CALTROPS

Answer 7

Buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, ling nut, mustache nut, singhara nut or water chestnut

Question 8

NUTMEG

Answer 8

Fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit

1-2mg recommended
Over 5mg -> toxic reactions

Question 9

HAUTE CUISINE

Answer 9

Cooking of a high standard, typically French cooking

Question 10

MSG

Answer 10

Monosodium Glutamate

A scientist felt sick after having a dinner at a Chinese restaurant, after that he drafted a medical journal about all of his symptoms after the meal, based on his hunch over MSG. This causes international panic.

Sodium + Glutamate (amino acid found in organic proteins)

The well-known akin version of MSG - Umami was also in doubt

Was named as Chinese Restaurant Syndrome

Due to scientific research during 1960s, in which MSG was injected in mice and found to cause retina and brain damage, alongside with some studies explored that excessive amount of glutamate can lead to Alzheimer’s (but later found that it’s bc of internal glutamate imbalances and not related to MSG) -> news outbreaks

-> Glutamate actually supports metabolism and some even consider healthy