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From: "Jan" <[email protected]>
To: "Recipes" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:34 PM
Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Food trivia Quiz
Food Trivia Quiz
1) You've seen them in stores - Sea Legs, imitation scallops, imitation
crab and imitation shrimp. What is the general name for these products,
what are they made from, who developed the process and when was the
process developed?
2) What do basil, marjoram, oregano, sage and rosemary have in common?
3) What dessert ingredient was inspired by a perfume for gloves?
4) What are the only two food preferences humans are supposedly born
with?
5) What are the top 3 'farmed' fish crops in the U.S.?
Answers
1) Surimi. Those seafood items that look like crab, scallops, etc. but
are really mostly white fish fillets, are thought of by most people as
some sort of modern high tech imitation product. They go by such names
as 'sea legs', imitation crab or imitation shrimp, etc. In reality, this
process was developed in Japan several hundred years ago when the
Japanese discovered that mincing fish flesh, washing it and then heating
it, caused a natural gelling of the flesh. If this was then mixed with
other ingredients and steamed, the resulting 'fish cake' (kamaboko)
stayed together as though it were a natural product.
2) They are all in the mint family.
3) Frangipane is a rich pastry cream flavored with ground almonds and
used to fill or top pastries and cakes. The name has a very unusual
origin. In the 16th century an Italian nobleman, Marquis Muzio
Frangipani, created a perfume for scenting gloves. It was popular in
Paris, and pastry cooks flavored pastry cream with almonds and called it
'frangipane', presumably to take advantage of the scents popularity.
4) Humans only have two basic food preferences that we are born with; a
liking for sweet foods, and a dislike for bitter foods. All other
preferences are learned, either culturally or by personal experience
which may cause us to associate certain tastes or foods with unpleasant
or pleasant moments. Medical disorders may also cause a craving or
revulsion for certain foods.
5)
Catfish is the largest 'crop', followed by crawfish and the third
largest 'crop' is rainbow trout.
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