Quick Foodie Quiz 22 – answers
Here are the answers:
- According to Wikipedia, Gordon Ramsay’s first TV appearance as a chef was in which programme?
- Faking It
- Boiling Point
- The F-Word
- Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
It seems hard to imagine TV without him, doesn’t it? But 1998 was the first time he graced our screens, with this five-part documentary about his attempt to create a restaurant to win him his third Michelin star.
- If you ordered a Japanese dish of kurage, what main ingredient would it contain?
- Whelks
- Abalone
- Jellyfish
- Seaweed
Mr Not Delia and I tried this a few months ago – it really wasn’t bad at all. You can read more about it here:
Starz Diner revisited
- Salvia officinalis is a fairly commonly used culinary herb in Britain. Which of the following is it?
- Parsley
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Thyme
It’s native to the Mediterranean and is renowned for its medicinal as well as its culinary properties (its Latin name derives from the word meaning “to heal”).
- Bouchot is a French technique for growing which edible creature?
- Snails
- Frogs
- Geese
- Mussels
The technique involves driving piles into the sea bed between high and low tide and tying ropes to them in a spiral – the mussels grow on the ropes and can easily be recovered that way.
- The Cornish Cross is a breed of which farmed animal?
- Duck
- Pig
- Chicken
- Sheep
Also known as the Cornish Rock, the Cornish Cross is bred for its meat rather than as a layer.
How did you get on?
4 Responses to “Quick Foodie Quiz 22 – answers”
I got three when Not Delia tested these questions on me. Of course, it helped that I was with her when we tried the Japanese jellyfish thing a while back. 😉
I didn’t have a clue about 4 and 5 and guessed wrongly twice on each of them before hitting on the right answer. 🙄
I ended up guessing on every single one, but managing a score of 2, correctly answering questions 3 and 4.
This is a nice idea for a regular entry on the blog. May I ask how you did it (from a WordPress point of view) in terms of linking from the question page to the answer page? I like to have a few things running on my blog that can appear when I’m absent and this kind of thing would lend itself well…
Thanks!
Oh, and whilst I’m at it, I meant to also ask what you’re using to notify of follow up comments. I know there’s a plugin called something like ‘subscribe to comments’ but, IIRC, that wasn’t compatible with the latest version of WordPress.
Oops – you caught me out there 😳 If you’re talking about the tick-box at the bottom, I think that may well be from the plugin you mention. (The one I’d installed was “Comment reply notification” – it doesn’t seem to work properly, anyway.)
I’d meant to remove it, but other things got in the way. I’ve sorted it now.
(Edit: an updated version’s now available, allegedly compatible with WP 2.8.4 – but it didn’t seem to work either.)