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CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONS

ANSWERS ARE BELOW   (A New quiz every day)

TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· The famous Paris restaurant, La Tour d'Argent served its 100,000th signature dish, 'Caneton Tour D'Agent' (pressed duck).
· Sheffeld Farms of New York began using wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery.
· Popeye the spinach loving sailor first appeared in the comic strip 'Thimble Theatre.'
· The Ruby Red grapefruit was a chance mutation discovered at a farm in McAllen, Texas.
· Harland Sanders (Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame) opened his first restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky.

2) Where does cream of tartar come from?
  [a] tartar sauce  [b] old wine casks  [c] a plant

3) Where is the highest concentration of vitamin C found in a tomato?
  [a] the skin; [b] the seeds;
  [c] the jelly-like substance around the seeds.
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 1929.
  (Food History Timeline: 1926-1930)

2) [b] Cream of tartar is a white, acid powder that is precipitated onto the walls of casks used to age wine.

3) [c] The highest concentration of vitamin C in tomatoes is in the jelly-like substance around the seeds.

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