Test your foodie knowledge with our quick quiz. Only five questions but quite difficult, we think. Have fun!

1. What is a bireweck?
   1. A tiered tray for cooling baked goods
   2. An Alsatian cake like a fruit loaf
   3. A steel utensil for holding asparagus in the cooking pan
   4. A type of fish
2. In what monthly magazine was Isabella Beeton’s household management advice first published?
   1. The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
   2. Good Housekeeping
   3. Cosmopolitan
   4. Best Advice For Housewives
3. What is a sargus?
   1. A type of Polish sausage
   2. A type of fish
   3. An Egyptian bread
   4. A flavouring derived from sugar cane
4. What is a sterlet?
   1. A type of fish
   2. An egg dish similar in texture to a soufflé
   3. A utensil for folding in stiffened egg whites
   4. The small piece of chicken meat in the hollow of the iliac bones, just above the tail.
5. Which cookbook writer won the 2004 Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year for the book Toast?
   1. Nigella Lawson
   2. Delia Smith
   3. Darina Allen
   4. Nigel Slater

Check the answers here

You’ll no doubt have heard that Liverpool is one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2008. Anyway, as one of the events, the city’s hosting a Science Festival organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 6-11 September.

So what’s this got to do with food? Well, for the first time the Food Standards Agency will be holding various events within the festival. The key events will be public debates about some of the hottest topics in food science, including obesity, GM food, and Government food policy and the science that underlies it. FSA Chief Scientist Andrew Wadge will also be launching his Annual Report at the Festival.

The FSA will be holding events all week, so if you you can make it to Liverpool during that period there’ll be plenty to see, hear and do (and, who knows, even taste…).

You can find out more about the Festival at the FSA website.