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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?
· Built by John Jacob Astor, the Astor House (Park Hotel) luxury hotel opened in New York City.
· Alonzo Dwight Philips patented the phosphorous friction safety match in the U.S.
· The first printed American menu is issued by Delmonico's Restaurant in New York.
· Arkansas becomes the 25th U.S. state.

2) These broad-leaved, evergreen trees have an average life span of about 500 years, but they can live up to 1,500 years or more.  To made made edible, both ripe and unripe forms of the small, ovoid fruits must be specially processed to remove the bitterness found in them. Some of its relatives are the ash, lilac and jasmine.
Can you name this tree and its fruits?

3) Can you name this food?  It is an eastern Mediterranean item (Greek, Turkish, Indian, Jewish).  Here are the ingredients:
ground, roasted sesame seeds or pignolia nuts or blanched almonds, and/or pistachios; butter, honey or sugar syrup; and sometimes candied fruit, raisins, cinnamon, cardamon, whipped cream; and sometimes farina, semolina or flour
What is the name of this food?
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 1836.
  (Food History Timeline: 1836-1840)

2) Olives.

3) Halvah Or Halva.

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