The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Party Room => Brain Food => Topic started by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on April 07, 2005, 07:00:30 PM
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Since I am working on a cooking major in school, I just had a thought of a trivia about food in general, like restaurants, dishes, and different ingrediants. What do you guys think?
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Interesting! I suppose many of us (me included) could learn quite a lot from it. :)
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Be my guest....I'll give it a try. :)
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Ok. So where should I start the thread?
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Let's start with the first question:
Which people first created noodles?
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I would have to say the Italians.
If not, then pretty much the Italians took the idea of making noodles and made hundreds of different varieties.
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They certainly took the idea and many believe that the Italians invented the noodles. The Italians invented half a dozen names or so for almost identical spaghetti which differ only in breadth or length.
However, it wasn't the Italians who invented the noodles.
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The Chinese
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Right. The Chinese invented the noodles, but indeed the Italians created many noodle forms. Your turn Nick.
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Who invented peanut butter?
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If you are asking for a people I would guess (without knowing) the Americans, but you are asking for a person, don't you?
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A person, Malte
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I'm thinking of George Washington Carver. He found a lot of uses for peanuts, and think peanut butter is one of them.
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Yep. Your turn Kenji.
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Ok. I got one:
If you take one cup of water to two cups of dry rice, how many cups of cooked rice will you get?
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4 cups
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Not quite. Very close though.
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3 cups then
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Yep. That was pretty much a giveaway there. Your turn.
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What is caviar?
Nick
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The spawn of the sturgeon. It is considered a delicatesse and is very expensive. There are "alternatives" wich means the spawn of other fish of similar look and taste.
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Yep. Your turn Malte
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Which fruit was so important in ancient Greek that the cutting down of the trees that grew these fruit in the enemy's territory was a common act if it came to war?
Please also give me one reason why this fruit was so extremely important in ancient days.
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The only thing I can think of is winemaking. :unsure:
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Wine is in fact very popular and important in those times (and sometimes today too), but I'm thinking about apples, that they may be more sacred.
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Sorry, but neither of these is the fruit I am thinking of. It is very much associated with Greece still today. The special importance is based on the possiblility to press oil out of this plant which could be used to make food less perishable in a time without modern preservative stuffs.
The capital of Greece is named after the goodess who donated the tree of these fruits to the Greek.
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It's not olives it is? I remember something about an olive branch is supposed to symbolise peace or something or other. I know you can make olive oil and the greeks were famous for their olives.
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That's perfectly right Jason!
According to the Greek mythology the godess Pallas Athene brought the olive tree to the Greek hoping to be worshiped in a new temple they were building. Poseidon (in sort of a competition) brought the horse to the humans. Athene's gift was valued higher, but Poseidon was worshiped in the temple as well.
Cutting down the olive trees was considered a very mean act, as olive trees grow very slowly, so it would take decades until the damage was repaired.
Your turn Jason.
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Oh boy?! A question on food! :( :unsure: Can't say I'm expert on the subject. An expert at EATING it but not in general LOL. Erm... ok, here goes:
MSG is the abbreaviation of what food additive?
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Monosodium Glutamate?
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We have a winner ;)
It also makes food additive. Ever wondered why Haribo is so mourish? Why when you pop with Pringles you just can't stop? Well MSG is your answer! :DD
Your turn Kenji
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Ok. Here's another easy math question:
You add 4 ounces of powder milk to 1 quart of water. How much milk does that make?
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Boy, these trivia games are staring to die out quickly...
Anyway, the answer to my question is 1 quart of milk.
Anyone want to try one or should I do the next one?
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what is ambrosia?
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The food of the Greek gods, isn't it?
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I think it's a kind of Southern U.S. fruit dessert.
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It is the food of the gods.
Once Nick22 confirms this, you can go, Malte279.
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Really? I found a couple recipes for ambrosia, probably named that way because they were meant to taste like food for the gods.
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I got it now. My answer for ambrosia is right because it is an actual recipe of a kind of fruit salad, with some variations adding coconut. Malte's answer is also right because ambrosia means "food for the gods". But since Malte answered first, it's his turn.
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I think it depends on what Nick meant. Nick, which Ambrosia were you refering to?
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I was refering to the 'food of the gods" your turn malte.
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Which grain used to be grown by some native American people (particularly in middle and south America), became almost forgotten, and is rediscovered nowadays because it is more nutritious than almost every other crop? For all I know astronauts' diets often include this grain.
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I thought wheat, but that certainly wasn't forgotten and was a staple crop of the US. :lol: Uhm...hmm....good question. :P:
Is it a well-known grain found in many foods?
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Is it a well-known grain found in many foods?
At least it isn't in Europe and I don't think it is in America. I found out that it was grown in Asia and even in parts of Europe too, so it appears it was known before the Europeans came to the Americas. The Aztecs and Incas worshiped the crop and even considered it to have magical powers.
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Is it rice?
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Nope! That one has ever been of tremendous importance and was never almost forgotten.
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Is it quinoa?
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No.
Actually yours is a very, very good guess. Quinoa is very similar in several ways to the crop I'm talking of and there are very many similarities in the two crops history. You are very close to the answer.
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I think I found it. Is it the Amaranth seed?
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That's correct Kenji! :yes
Your turn.
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Here's one:
What was the original term for the French words 'garde manger', and what does the word means in the modern world of culinary arts?
Let me know if it's too tricky or needs re-wording.
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Hmm...I'll just require the answer to the first question. The second one will be a bonus or saved for later.
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The original term was "officer de bouche" (a guy who watched over the cold storage), and it now refers to an entry level cooking position in a restaurant.
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Sorry for the LONG reply...
I'll give you that one, Stitch. For personal experience, I did work around cold storage at an entry-level position, in which I was called a pantry cook.
Your turn!
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BUMP to Stitch. :bang
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since stitch hasn't replied in two years I'll put one up
how many mozzerella sticks are there in a normal order? note this msay vary from place to place .. I'm willing to be flexible
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Six?
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I think it's 12.
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BUMP to Nick