Test your foodie knowledge with our quick quiz. Only five questions but quite difficult, we think. Have fun!
- What is Bûche de Noël?
- A French Christmas recipe for a Yule log
- A well-known Swiss cookbook with recipes for Christmas
- A Canadian pastry traditionally made at Christmas
- A Belgian liqueur distilled from birch sap, traditionally drunk on Christmas Eve
- What does au gratin mean?
- Served with a cheese sauce
- A dish sprinkled with cheese and/or breadcrumbs then browned on top
- A sandwich made French-style, like a croque, with the cheese on the outside
- Garnished with a roux-based cheese and parsley sauce
- In culinary terms, what does marc mean?
- A joint of meat used only to provide flavour to a dish rather than for the meat itself
- A method of infusing fruit with alcohol in a technique similar to macerating
- A clear alcohol made from the pressed grapes after wine making
- It’s another word for cocotte (a small dish for baking individual soufflés etc)
- Who wrote the book Ballymaloe Cookery Course first published in the UK in 2001?
- Donna Hay
- Delia Smith
- Darina Allen
- Jeanne Rankin
- What is charcuterie?
- Prepared meat products (such as sausages, patés, hams, etc) made from any kind of animal
- Prepared meat products as above, but made from pork only
- Any kind of meat prepared according to French butchery techniques
- French salami-style sausage
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Test your foodie knowledge with our quick quiz. Only five questions but quite difficult, we think. Have fun!
- Which one of the following chefs was born in England?
- Raymond Blanc
- Gordon Ramsay
- Heston Blumenthal
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Which of the following is NOT a breed of pig?
- Belgian Landrace
- Red Wattle
- American Blackbelly
- Mulefoot
- In Thai cooking, what is a prik?
- A chilli
- A cooking utensil
- A type of sauce
- A trainee chef
- Anton Edelmann was maître chef des cuisines at the Savoy Hotel for 21 years, from 1982 to 2003. What nationality is he?
- German
- Austrian
- Swiss
- British
- From what region of Italy does balsamic vinegar come?
- Tuscany
- Piedmont
- Umbria
- Modena
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As usual just five questions and quite difficult, we think. This week for a change the questions are about food in music. Have fun!
- A 1967 song by Leonard Cohen names a woman who feeds you “tea and oranges that come all the way from China”. What is her name?
- Barbara Ann
- Marianne
- Roxanne
- Suzanne
- According to a 1968 lyric by George Harrison, what flavour of fudge “really blows down those blues”?
- Vanilla
- Coconut
- Rum ‘n’ raisin
- Treacle
- 10cc’s 1975 single “Life Is A Minestrone” mentions which other Italian foodstuffs?
- Linguini and tiramisú
- Ravioli and prosciutto ham
- Lasagna and Parmesan cheese
- Pizza margherita and mozzarella cheese
- Which band had a 1985 album titled Meat Is Murder?
- The Sugarcubes
- The Alarm
- The Smiths
- Tears For Fears
- Before embarking on his solo career, Paul Young had a minor hit with the Street Band in 1978, singing the praises of which simple food or drink?
- Toast
- Jam
- Milk
- Tea
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