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CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONS

ANSWERS ARE BELOW   (A New quiz every day)

TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ

QUESTIONS

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· Gail Borden creates condensed milk.
· Native American Chef George Crum invented potato chips at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York.
· Keebler Biscuits are introduced in Philadelphia by baker Godfrey Keebler.

2) A thistle-like Eurasian plant (Carthamus tinctorius) of the daisy family, having heads of red or orange flowers that are the source of a red dye. The seeds, which look like small pine nuts, contain an oil used in foods (especially margarine), cosmetics, paints, and medicine. The flower petals are sometimes used as a substitute for saffron.
Name this plant.

3) An aromatic herb, a member of the parsley or carrot family, and indigenous to the regions around the Black and Caspian Seas. It is an essential ingredient of fines herbes, widely used in French cuisine.  Some varieties also have edible roots which are like small turnips, and were enjoyed by the early Greeks and Romans, and in England during the 14th to 17th centuries.
Name this herb.
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 1853.
  (Food History Timeline: 1850-1854)

2) Safflower.

3) Chervil.

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