General Flashcards
(129 cards)
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About 90 percent of the world’s licorice is used not for candy but in what (non-edible) consumer product?
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Cigarettes (as flavor additive)
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Chicken in Odessa, goose or duck in Poltava, carp in Lviv, and lamb and mushrooms in Kiev: These are some of the ingredients that accompany the universal main ingredient in regional variations of what soup, widely considered by locals as the national soup of Ukraine?
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Borscht
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Shirred Eggs, which are often topped with milk, cream or butter, are baked in this container, which can be made of either ceramic or glass.
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Ramekin
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The small dumplings, usually filled with minced meat or mashed potatoes, that are traditionally served on Rosh Hashanah or before the fasting of Yom Kippur are most commonly referred to by what Yiddish-derived name?
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Kreplach
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What classic recipe from Italian cooking may derive its name from the Neapolitan ships that brought tomatoes from the New World?
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Marinara sauce
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What is the common name of the herb Anethum graveolens, a member of the parsley family that is visually similar to fennel? It is used abundantly in Poland, Russia, and the Nordic countries with fish (e.g., gravlax), and is also used on potatoes, to flavor cucumbers and gherkins, and with sour cream and yogurt.
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Dill
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Archetypal “Swiss” cheese, with its large holes, that is produced outside of Switzerland is an imitation of what authentic Swiss cheese, which takes its name from the valley near Bern where it originated?
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Emmental
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Albóndigas, keftédes, köttbullar, Klopse, polpette, and köfte are all dishes that are generally referred to in English as what?
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Meatballs
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The large, pink pork sausage known in English as Mortadella originated in what city, which gives its name to the authentic sausage’s broadly copied (and inferior) imitators?
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Bologna
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While it is botanically a vegetable, the US Customs Court ruled in 1947 that what plant was a fruit on the basis of how its edible stalks are normally eaten?
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Rhubarb
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Although it’s popular throughout the Maghreb, Tunisia is the world’s largest exporter of the prepared version of what condiment, a spicy paste made from chili peppers, often including ground roasted red peppers and other ingredients like garlic? Much production is centered in the Nabeul region which includes the Cap Bon (Ras at-Tib) peninsula whose name is referenced by some leading brands.
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Harissa
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Traditionally, the Ramadan fast is broken by observant Muslims at the start of the iftar meal with what food, varieties of which include halawy, deglet noor, medjool, barhi, and khadrawy?
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Dates
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Mongolian barbecue is a stir-fry dish that first came to prominence in what country?
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Taiwan
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What is the process of putting food into boiling water then into cold water called?
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Blanching
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“Long pig” is a culinary term for what kind of meat?
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“Long pig” was supposedly the local term on certain cannibal-friendly Pacific islands for human flesh.
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The name of what Swiss dish, whose batterie de cuisine includes a caquelon, a réchaud and probably some fourche à longue tige, comes from the French for “melted”?
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Fondue
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What is the term for the red, orange, or black accessory fruit of the rose plant? Very rich in ascorbic acid, they are often used as a nutritional supplement for vitamin C.
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Hip
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A specialty of Naples, this pizza turnover’s name means “Trouser Leg.”
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Calzone
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In North America, edible varieties of rapeseed oil are not known by that name (unsurprisingly), but rather by what other name, which was originally a trademark but is now used generically?
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Canola
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Goulash originated in what country?
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Hungary
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Though the terms are now often used interchangeably, a traditional shepherd’s pie consists of minced lamb (or mutton), vegetables, and a mashed potato crust, whilst what other dish has the same recipe replacing the lamb with beef?
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Cottage Pie
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What American dish, made of corn porridge boiled in milk, lent its name to the Harvard social club that ate it at its first meetings in 1795?
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Hasty Pudding
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Rognons, meats that come from this organ, may be sautéed with mushrooms.
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Kidneys
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What variety of Mexican taco is actually a local adaptation of Lebanese shawarma?
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Tacos “al pastor” are Mexico’s nod to Middle Eastern fusion.
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"Unagi" is the Japanese word for this animal and regional delicacy.
Eel
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This was the first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal.
Quaker Oats
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It was created as a health food in the 19th c. and returned to tables as Heartland natural cereal in 1972.
Granola
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Home fries are also called by the name of this specific type of house.
Cottage (fries)
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"Lost bread" is the literal translation of pain perdu, which is best known in English as what?
French toast
30
A gastronomic society for the promotion of a particular dish, a cornmeal preparation that is a basic dish of northern Italy, has a motto that exclaims, "Per Patria Prima Per [this] Poi!" ("First for homeland, then for [this]!") What is this dish?
Polenta
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What is the name of the extract from the stomach of a young animal (particularly a calf or lamb) that contains an enzyme that causes the milk protein casein to curdle, and is therefore used in the manufacture of some cheeses?
Rennet
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Bolinhos de bacalhau are deep-fried croquettes of potato, onion, egg, and what specific preserved seafood?
(Salt) Cod
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Chanko Nabe is a high protein stew that’s traditionally cooked for those training for this sport.
Sumo wrestling
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There are many ways to make this spicy mayo sauce that Cajuns are known to dip chilled shrimp into.
Remoulade
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Large and easily stuffable, cerignola from Italy is a variety of this.
Olive
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What dish has Lebanon accused Israel of appropriating as their own national dish? In 2010, Lebanese chefs made the world's largest serving — over 23,000 lbs — while the Lebanese minister of tourism attempted to register the dish with the European Union in order to forbid other countries from using its name. (The world record stands, but the registration failed.)
Hummus
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This type of Japanese beef can come from one of four breeds of beef cattle, the most desired of which is genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.
Wagyu
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A Bantu dialect term for "okra" and a Choctaw word for "filé" are possible (and appropriate) origins for the name of what dish?
Okra
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What word, the name of small town in the French Seine-Maritime region where its namesake soft cheese is made, is redacted in this image?
Neuf-chatel
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What spice is most closely associated with the cuisine of Hungary and is the namesake for one national dish and dominant seasoning for another (goulash)?
Paprika
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A specially prepared cornmeal dough usually stuffed with sweet or savory fillings and steamed inside a trimmed corn husk or banana leaf—this describes, most commonly, what dish? Zacahuiles are giant ones, while norteños are a smaller variety.
Tamale
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Together with capers and anchovies, olives are a key ingredient in this French-named spread.
Tapenade
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Turkey is the world’s largest producer of these fruits; its town of Cerasus was famous for them.
Cherries
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This British dessert's name is a combination of its ingredients: bananas, cream and toffee.
Banoffee
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Along with eggs and hollaindaise sauce, what is the primary ingredient in eggs florentine?
Spinach
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This Korean dish's literal translation into English is "mixed rice."
Bibimbap
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The heart, liver, and lungs of a calf or sheep chopped up with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasoning, and boiled in a sheep's stomach, is a traditional preparation of what dish, which is historically served during a Scottish celebration known as Burns supper?
Haggis
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What nickname (usually for a male) is also used as a term for the well-marbled primal cut of beef from the neck, shoulder blade, and upper arm? In the 19th century, the word was commonly used as a slang term for any food.
Chuck
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This section of the Michelin guide highlights restaurants offering "exceptionally good food at moderate prices." Part of the feature name is a nickname of the Michelin Man.
Bib Gourmand
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What Yiddish term is used for the rendered chicken fat that is stirred into chopped liver and added to latkes and kugel, and whose preparation results in a crispy byproduct known as gribenes?
Schmaltz
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The Department of Defense provides MRE rations for military servicemembers. What does the acronym MRE stand for?
Meal, Ready-to-Eat
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This corn dough or flour is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution and is used to make corn tortillas, tamales, pupuases and many other Latin American dishes.
Masa
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This is the Japanese word for flying fish roe.
Tobiko
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What dish can be called "gnudi" if it's made with ricotta cheese mostly replacing the potato or semolina flour?
Gnocchi
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Now the name of a Harvard theatrical club, it was a porridge of milk and flour or cornmeal.
Hasty Pudding
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This cooking term, which comes from the French word for "to preserve," describes when food is cooked in great, oil or syrup at a lower temperature, sometimes as an alternative to deep frying.
Confit
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Tom Yum Goon from Thailand is made with prawns & this, cymbopogon citratus.
Lemongrass
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What common snack food is placed atop a bed of lettuce to make a "Pittsburgh salad"?
French Fries
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This crepe-like Russian pancake is traditionally made from wheat.
Blin
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Sauce Raifort, made from this condiment, is served cold as an accompaniment to prime rib.
Horseradish
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This is the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. Part of the same plant family as custard apples, this fruit has a sweet flavor similar to banana, mango and canteloupe.
Papaw / Paw Paw
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A classic version of what dessert consists of a sponge cake soaked in liqueur with ice cream on top, all of which is covered in meringue and served immediately after cooking in a hot oven to caramelize the meringue?
Baked Alaska
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The Scottish delicacy "Finnan haddie" is made by cold-smoking what Atlantic fish?
Haddock
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What kind of Italian cheese can you approximate at home just by adding lemon juice to hot milk?
You can make a pretty fair **_ricotta_** without using a single ingredient that's "ricotta"--or even cotta just once.
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A British chicken dish, consisting of cooked pieces of chicken in a curried mayonnaise sauce, was created for and named after an event that occurred on June 2, 1953. What is the straightforward name of that dish?
Coronation Chicken
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What is the name for the most common type of cheese, similar to chhena, that is used in traditional South Asian cuisines, often coupled in popular dishes with palak (saag), khoya, or mattar?
Paneer
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What is the difference between a *croque monsieur* and a *croque madame*?
The *croque madame* comes with a fried or poached egg on top.
Both include bread, gruyere cheese and ham.
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What two-word fruit, which includes the varieties Montmorency and Kentish Red, is a natural producer of melatonin that aids in sleep and is the basis for such beverages as *sharbat-e albalou*, *vişne şurubu* and *kriek lambic*?
Sour/Tart Cherry
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The culinary vegetable known as the sunchoke, sunroot, or topinambour, is also known as an "artichoke" that is named after what city (though it is neither an artichoke nor related to the city in any way)?
Jerusalem
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What dish from southern France, often consisting of baby anchovies and sardines eaten raw, has a name which is used for an unrelated—and very different—dish in Québec?
Poutine
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The name of this dish translates to "to slice" or "cut crosswise into pieces" in Hawaiian.
Poke
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On a seafood menu, “dolphinfish” typically shows up under what more palatable name?
Mahi Mahi
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Asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb are examples of what type of vegetable? They are defined by their plant's ability to survive for more than two years.
Perennial
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Cultivation of what grain may have predated rice in China? In the northern parts of the country, where cold, dry conditions were unsuitable for rice, this grain remained primary for millennia, and was central to the diet of the Xia and Shang dynasties.
Millet
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Waffles, known by the 14th century, soared in popularity after the Reformation in Protestant Europe, when richer ingredients like butter and eggs were added to the batter for "oublie," a patterned version of what venerated food item?
Communion wafer
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Despite a common myth positioning Marco Polo as the conduit between Chinese noodles and Italian pasta, the two dishes evolved separately. Dried wheat noodles called itriyah entered Europe from the Middle East via what Mediterranean island still famous for its pasta dishes?
Sicily
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What convenience food, invented by tin miners' wives in the 18th century, had crimped edges to allow miners to hold their meal without eating the parts of the food touched by arsenic-coated hands? After emigrating to Michigan's iron-rich Upper Peninsula, the miners brought this food tradition with them, where it remains central to local food culture today.
(Cornish) Pasty
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Not all "traditional" foods are ancient. After US policymakers used forced Indian relocation as an opportunity to unload excess commodities like flour, lard, and sugar as "payment" for stolen land, what powwow staple was developed in the 19th century to minimize the taste of mold and rancidity in low-quality commodity rations?
Fry Bread
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Apicius wrote a recipe for braising them, wrapped in pork fat. In Moorish Seville, they were banned from areas near the mosque as a "delicacy of the dissolute." What is this wild-grown food item, thought by Pliny the Elder to be "lumps of earthy substance balled together," and by Juvenal and Plutarch to result from lightning strikes on soil?
Truffles
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Cooking isn't just tasty — sometimes, it's mandatory. What nut (actually a seed) is never sold in raw form due to high levels of urushiol, the same toxic resin produced by poison ivy, a close relative of the plant? Grocery store "raw" versions of this nut have undergone steaming to remove the toxin.
Cashew
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What member of the nightshade family, associated in 17th-18th century Europe with illnesses ranging from syphillis to scrofula, would only be accepted in France after Antoine-Augustin Parmentier wrote a treatise promoting the vegetable (perhaps to the surprise of his Prussian captors in the Seven Years' War, who made him subsist on them in prison)?
Potato
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Originally developed as a working-class staple in a Welsh fishing village, what dish (created by stuffing a beef cut with seasoned oysters) became a luxury food fad for Australians in the mid-20th century? In spite of its name, this dish is not associated with American Reconstruction era opportunists.
Carpetbag(ger) Steak
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The sweet treat lokum, a gel of starch and sugar flavored with nuts and fruit invented (according to legend) in the 18th century by Ottoman confectioner Haci Bekir, is best known in the West (and in Western fantasy literature) by what other name?wi
Turkish Delight
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Identify the salad dressing and condiment, similar to Russian dressing, that is named after a geographical area that straddles a part of the international border between Ontario and New York.
Thousand Island Dressing
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A Narragansett language term for "boiled whole kernel corn" begat the English word for what dish, which has multiple variations but is commonly a stew of lima beans and corn?
Succotash
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In 1938, innkeeper Ruth Graves Wakefield invented a cookie recipe using small pieces of semisweet chocolate in a brown-sugar dough. What name did she give to these cookies, after the Massachusetts inn she and her husband owned (and in whose restaurant the cookies were first made)?
Toll House Cookies
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Steam cleaning raw sugar in a centrifuge, which results in a light-brown sugar with a coarse grain and subtle molasses flavor, is a process that gives what sugar its name?
Turbinado
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What is the name for the slightly sour and spongy flatbread, made from a mixture of teff flour and water, that is used both as a platter and an eating utensil in Ethiopian cuisine?
Injera
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A type of roll invented in Vienna (and thus also known as a Vienna roll) is believed to have been given a name in honor of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria in the 19th century. What is that name?
Kaiser Roll
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What kind of "ham" is a sandwich spread made with ground cooked ham, salt, sugar, and spices, and sold in small round cans featuring the oldest food trademark still in use in the United States?
Deviled Ham
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What kind of food is produced by the California Marcona Company?
Marcona **_almonds_**, from Spain, are pretty much the best almonds.
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Cheese whey, beet sugar, and mashed apple peelings were among the unappetizing original ingredients of what product, invented in 1944 by Coca-Cola's German subsidiary in response to wartime shortages?
Fanta
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At Brennan's in New Orleans, 35,000 lbs. of a certain fruit gets flamed annually to make this signature dessert of the restaurant.
Bananas Foster
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Bust out your chafing dish, some orange butter sauce and Grand Marnier to fire up this crepes dish.
Crepes Suzette
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Eureka and Lisbon are the two most common varieties in the United States of what fruit crop, grown predominantly in California along with specialty varieties and hybrids such as Variegated Pink and Meyer?
Lemon
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Japanese surimi, made from fish paste, is most often sold in the United States as an imitation version of what food?
We most often use it to make imitation **_crabmeat_**. Krab with a 'k'!
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What is the name for the common tomato-based sauce in Italian cuisine, believed to have been invented in Naples in the mid-twentieth century, that is typically prepared with black olives, capers, anchovies, and red pepper?
Puttanesca
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Certain long, thin, sponge cake cookies, which are made with eggs, sugar, and flour and baked until golden, and which are used for trifles, charlottes, and tiramisu, and sometimes served with ice cream, are often given what anatomical name?
Ladyfingers / Cat's Tongues
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What Swiss cheese, named for a valley in the canton of Fribourg, is traditionally used in French onion soup & on the classic French sandwich croque-monsieur?
Gruyere
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It is said that what fruit was named by the 16th century Spanish catholic missionaries in the Amazon region of Brazil, alternately calling it "flor de las cinco llagas" or "flower of the five wounds," as they believed its purple flower resembled the five wounds of Christ during the crucifixion?
Passionfruit
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What product traditionally bears this warning label: "Do not use fresh or frozen pineapple, kiwi, gingerroot, papaya, figs or guava"?
Enzymes in those fruits keep **_Jell-O_** from setting up. That's the only thing keeping you from enjoying fig-and-ginger Jell-O salads the way you've always wanted to.
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The name for what edible mushroom, also known as egg mushroom, is derived from the Latin meaning "little cup", in reference to its shape?
Chanterelle
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Though its exact etymology is unclear, what everyday condiment is thought to take its name from the Chinese for "pickled fish brine"?
Ketchup
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What vegetable is typically the main ingredient of polenta?
Polenta is usually cornmeal, which is usually **_corn_**.
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By adding two letters to the front of the name of a South American capital city, you'll get the name of what food item, a Mexican dish typically consisting of a small rolled-up tortilla that contains filling, often including beef, cheese or chicken?
Taquito
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Tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, and bell & chili peppers are among the edible plants within what nocturnally-named family of plants?
Nightshade
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Virginia Elliott and Robert Howard Jones's 1934 cookbook Soups and Sauces has one of the first known published recipes for a soup that replaces the milk in clam chowder with tomatoes and has what geographical name?
Manhattan Clam Chowder
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Tobacco, potato, eggplant, and tomato are among the agricultural crops that belong to the family Solanaceae, which is most commonly known in English by what name?
Nightshades
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Thanks in part to its inclusion in popular (at the time) recipes such as Under-the-Sea Salad, Sunshine Salad, and Crown Jewel Dessert, sales of what product peaked in the United States in the late 1960s at four boxes per person per year?
Jell-O
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In French cooking, béchamel sauce is simply a white sauce made with a roux (butter and flour) and milk. Béchamel sauce with cheese added (typically Gruyère) becomes what other French sauce?
Mornay Sauce
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Used commonly to add flavor to potato, stuffing, chicken, and turkey dishes, among many others, what herb has a name derived from the Latin for "dew of the sea"?
Rosemary
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The three-layered ice cream brick known as Neapolitan is a variant on another dessert of Italian heritage, traditionally consisting of cherry, pistachio, and chocolate or vanilla gelato, and sometimes containing candied fruits and nuts. What is that dessert's name?
Spumoni
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This two-word term is used to describe animals like poultry that have been raised in natural conditions.
Free-range
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Dill is often used to flavor Havarti, a cheese originally from this country.
Denmark
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This fish and rice dish is derived from a Japanese word for sour.
Sushi
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What dish, named after a 19th-century Russian count, today typically consists of a beef tenderloin cubed or sliced thinly and cooked briefly in a mushroom, onion, and cream sauce, often served with crisp shoestring potatoes as a garnish?
Beef Stroganoff
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The cooking of corn kernels and lima beans separately, and then mixing them with butter, is one recipe for an American dish with what name (which to some may be more associated with a cartoon cat)?
Succotash
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Among the vast contributions to American culture and cuisine by Jewish immigrants from Romania in the 19th century is what spiced, smoked, and steamed delicacy and delicatessen staple, whose name comes from the Romanian verb for "to preserve"?
Pastrami
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Derived from the French verb meaning "to spin thread", what is the four-letter name of the herb—dried sassafras leaves reduced to powder—that can be used to thicken and flavor soups, stews, and, most notably, gumbo?
Filé
120
A roasted poblano pepper stuffed with cheese (and also perhaps diced meat, nuts, and/or cinnamon), then dipped in eggs and flour and deep-fried in oil—this is a basic recipe for what delectable dish that originated in the Mexican city of Puebla?
Chile Relleno
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Riced or mashed potatoes and flour are the main ingredients of what Norwegian flatbread, whose dough is rolled into thin, flat circles before being cooked on a griddle using a long wooden stick?
Lefse
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Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product
Milk Duds
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What round, grapelike fruit, which is not as readily available in the United States as it is in Europe (likely an effect of a federal ban implemented in early 1900s), is famous for its use in its namesake pie, but (despite its name) is unrelated to any species of the avian Anatidae family?
Gooseberry
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Once (and perhaps again?) a common breakfast dish in Britain, kippers are made with what fish, which are split, gutted, and cold-smoked?
Herring
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This is the trademarked name of the donut holes sold at Dunkin' Donuts
Munchkins
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In blue & silver wrappers, this chocolate bar brand has the words: "Dry Roasted Peanuts, Rich Caramel & Smooth Nougat" under its name.
Baby Ruth
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With a galaxy inspired look, this Little Debbie product is a soft, chewy cookie topped with caramel and crispy rice and coated with fudge.
Star Crunch (Cosmic)
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This vegetable is harvested from the inner core of certain trees including coconut or juçara
Heart of Palm
129
"Pep-O-Mint" was the first flavor of what confection and mints brand, introduced in 1912 and currently owned by Mars Inc.? The brand has had more than 40 flavors in its portfolio over the years.
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