Since we started writing this column, we’ve learned a lot about food, cooking and our wonderful restaurant and food service community. It was both enjoyable and educational. We also learned how knowledgeable our readers are about these topics.
So in February we thought it might be fun and interesting to take a break from our usual lunch magazine column and instead share some interesting and informative food facts and trivia. Due to popular demand and the enthusiastic reader response we received to that column, we decided to do it again with new questions designed to test your “food IQ”. We hope you enjoy this column. The answers are below.
1: Where was American cheese invented?
3: What percentage of Twinkies is air?
5: What is the most stolen food in the world?
6: What did Famous Amos do before he was known for his cookies?
7: In which Italian city was pizza born?
9: How many seeds are in a strawberry?
10: How many segments are in an orange?
11: What is the term that describes the process of slow cooking meat to reduce the fat content?
12: In which country was the show “The Iron Chef” born?
13: The three days of greatest food consumption in the United States are Thanksgiving, Christmas and what other day?
14: What is the name of a single spaghetti noodle?
15: Is white chocolate chocolate?
16: What are the ingredients in ganache?
17: What was the profession of William Morrison, the man who invented cotton candy?
18: What is sushi usually wrapped in?
19: Where did chimichurri originate?
20: Which celebrity, creator of the song “Bad Romance,” owns and operates a popular restaurant in New York City?
21: How much caffeine must be removed from coffee to qualify as decaffeinated?
22: What is the hottest part of a chili?
23: Sauerkraut comes from which vegetable?
24: Which tree produces fruit for up to 300 years?
25: What is the official state fruit of Vermont?
2: No, the fresher the egg, the faster it falls to the bottom. An egg that floats must be thrown out
4: No, they are seeds enclosed in a hard covering of fruit
5: cheese; Up to 4% of the world’s cheese production is stolen annually
6: He was a talent agent who represented Simon and Garfunkel, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and others
8: A round flatbread popular in India and other neighboring countries
9:200 (and a strawberry is not technically a berry)
15: No, it’s sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin and cocoa butter
16: Whipped cream and melted chocolate
20: Lady Gaga owns Joanne Trattoria. Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
25: The apple; Vermont produces over 1 million bushels of apples annually
See our next Dining with David & The Myra column that will review The Crooked Ram in Manchester, chosen as one of the Best Bars in America 2021 by Esquire magazine.
David Meiselman and Myra Packman are food and restaurant columnists for Vermont News & Medium. They can be reached at davidandmyravt@gmail.com.
