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Weekly Trivia Quiz is below - New on August 24
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
TODAY'S FOOD QUOTE
"I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato."
Laurie Colwin (1944-1992)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
- National Welsh Rarebit Day
- St. Gregory the Great, patron of educators, musicians and stone masons.
1752 This day does not exist, nor did the next 10 days. See September 2 for the explanation.
1875 Ferdinand Porsche was born. He was an Austrian engineer who designed the VW Beetle in 1935.
1881 Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur died. Born 1813 in Marengo, Switzerland. In 1851 he joined his uncles in their catering and pastry shop in New York. He transformed the business into one of the most famous restaurants in the country.
1912 The first cannery opened in England. It was to supply food to the Royal Navy.
1964 'The House Of The Rising Sun' by the Animals is #1 on the charts.
1966 The last episode of the TV show 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet' airs.
1967 Sweden switches from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right.
1970 Alan Wilson of the music group 'Canned Heat' died.
1970 Record Hailstone falls in Coffeyville, Minnesota. It weighed 1 2/3 pounds and measured 17 1/2 inches in circumference.
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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ
1) These events all happened in the same year.
Can you guess what year?
• Proctor & Gamble acquires Folgers coffee.
• H.J.Heinz acquires StarKist Seafood.
• Carnation Co. acquires Contadina Foods.
• Nabisco acquires the company making Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Junior Mints and Pom Poms.
• On February 11 Julia Child prepares Boeuf Bourguignon as she begins her cooking show on Boston educational TV.
• Weight Watchers is founded by Jean Neditch.
• H. Butler Flowers is the last surviving Long Island oysterman.
• Hershey's reduced the weight of its nickel Hershey Bar from 1oz to 7/8 oz.
• 'Tab' is introduced by Coca Cola.
• Borden introduces 'Cremora', a non-dairy creamer.
• Ermal Cleon Fraze obtains a patent for a pull-tab opener for beverage cans.
• There are 13.7 million farmers in the U.S., 7.1% of the population.
2) One of the largest trees in the world, Dr. Livingston (I presume) considered it to be a kind of giant carrot that someone had planted upside down. Native to tropical Africa, these trees bear a long, large, oblong fruit whose pulp is used to make a cooling beverage. The leaves are also dried and powdered and mixed with food, and the pulp of the tree is sometimes eaten.
Name this tree and its fruit.
3) In 1612, Captain John Smith described this dish as it was made by the Indians of Virginia: "Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt; lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie." This ancient Mexican dish, was served by the Aztecs to the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez and his men.
Name this dish.
4) Native to central Asia, this plant has been used since ancient times by the Chinese and the Egyptians. It is pictured on ancient Egyptian tomb walls from 3,000 B.C., and there is evidence of its use in ancient Sumaria, Crete, and in the ruins of Pompeii.
It has a long history in medicinal folklore, is mentioned by Pliny, Hippocrates, and Mohammed, and in modern times was used in both World Wars to treat disease and infection.
Its use in the culinary arts is equally as old, being mentioned in the Old Testament, and by Herodotus, Aristophanes, Virgil, and Dioscorides. It is used for its culinary value in almost every culture and country in the world.
'Chicago' is derived from the Native American name for the wild plant. It is said that it sprang up in the left footprints of Satan when he left the Garden of Eden.
Name this plant.
5) This animal was domesticated about 10,000 B.C, probably in the area in what is now northern Iraq, and selective breeding was being practiced by ancient Roman times. Its worldwide population today is over 1 billion. It is considered one of the most valuable of all domestic animals, Wild forms of this animal can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. South America and Australia have no wild species, but domestic types are raised there. Name this animal.
a) cattle
b) sheep
c) goats
d) pigs
e) chickens
6) What is heliculture?
a) growing plants in soil
b) growing snails for food
c) growing heliotrope garden plants
d) growing seaweed for food
7) Lake Titicaca is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels. It is the border between Peru and Bolivia at 12,500 feet above sea level, and is 3,200 square miles in size. It is also an area that was home to one of the oldest known civilizations in the Americas. The Aymara people that live there still practice ancient methods of agriculture.
What do they grow in the highest cultivated area of land in the world, at 15,420 feet?
a) potatoes
b) quinoa (a small grain)
c) barley
d) corn
e) chocolate
8) This is one of the oldest cultivated flowering plants. The flowers are edible, with a taste reminiscent of grapes and mint. It has been cultivated for so long that its origin is unknown. Some of the other names for the cultivated flower are ladies-delight, stepmother's flower. The wild forms are also known as johnny-jump-up and love-in-idleness.
Name this flower.
9) An Australian (or New Zealand) dessert named for a Russian Ballerina, it consists of a meringue base with whipped cream and fruit.
Name this dessert.
10) Ground black cherry pits are used as a flavoring in the Middle East.
What is this seasoning called?
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Dedication
This website is dedicated to:
Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young.
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