Food & Drink Quiz Friday #15

This dessert classically consists of ice cream enclosed in a layer of sponge cake and an outer layer of meringue that are then frozen until ready to serve, at which time it is placed into a very hot oven to brown the meringue. Both the meringue and the sponge cake act as insulators (keeping the ice cream from melted) due to the trapped air in their cellular structures.

Although present before 1876, that is when the dessert was served at Delmonico's Restaurant in NYC with the name, in honor of the USA's newly acclaimed territory.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #14

Used to make all sorts of different foods like tapioca, flour, and chips, this root must be cooked properly before consuming in order to destroy the cyanide compounds found naturally in its raw form. And apparently a small number of people, especially those with latex rubber allergies, are also allergic to this plant.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #13

The recipe for Jarlsberg was developed using a formula that originated with Swiss cheesemakers who moved to this country during the early 1800's and was named for nobleman Count Wedel Jarlsberg who owned land in the area where they were making it. 

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #12

Native to the rainforests of Africa, the Kola is an evergreen tree that reaches about 20-25 meters in height and has long, leathery ovoid leaves that are pointed at both ends. The trees have yellow flowers with purple spots, a star-shaped fruit and a nut. The portion used to flavor beverages also contains caffeine.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #11

This co-product of the manufacture of cheese or casein comes in a couple of different types. The sweet variety comes from the making of cheeses that use rennet to produce them, like Swiss and Cheddar. The sour (or acid) variety is produced when making softer cheeses that use acidic products like vinegar, lemon juice, or citric acid in their production, like ricotta and cottage cheese. Both varieties of this co-product have many uses and benefits.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #10

This thin-fleshed black fruit with a purplish-blue waxy bloom resembles a plum and has a highly astringent flavor if eaten raw. It is most often used in different sorts of alcoholic beverages like "mock" port wine, Pacharan, and Bargnolino, although you probably know it best by its inclusion in a certain type of gin liqueur (which bears the name of the fruit). It is also delicious made into jams and pies, and can be preserved in vinegar. 

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #9

That's 3 whole liters! Large bottles of champagne are named after Biblical figures, and this one is named after two kings of Israel (the first generally thought of as the founder of the Kingdom of Israel). This size bottle is popular for weddings since, though large, is still fairly manageable to both chill and pour.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #8

This type of seed is one of the oldest oil seeds known to man and is highly valued due to its exceptional resistance to rancidity. The seeds are a source of essential nutrients like omega-6 fatty acids (mainly linoleic and oleic), contain high amounts of protein and dietary fiber, and are rich in B vitamins, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron, and zinc.

A phrase made popular from the tale Arabian Nights references the way the pod of this seed bursts open when it reaches maturity.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #7

Now available fresh or tinned, Laverbread is rich in minerals and vitamins, including B12. It is also high in protein, iron, and iodine, and low in calories. Traditionally it was eaten as part of a miner's breakfast before a long day at the pits. It was also recommended for women and children who were suffering from malnourishment.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #6

If you hold an ultraviolet light (or a black light) over a bottle of tonic water, this ingredient makes it fluoresce. The FDA limits the contents of this ingredient in tonic water to 83 ppm (parts per million).

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #5

Made from two simple ingredients (sugar and the nut in question), marzipan is mentioned in Persian text dated all the back to the year 850. More than likely, it was around for many years before that. There are other varieties of marzipan made now that use other nuts, but I'm looking for the "original" nut today.

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Answer to Food & Drink Quiz Friday #4: The first loaf of pre-sliced bread hit shelves on July 7, 1928 labeled "Sliced Kleen Maid Bread".!

Food & Drink Quiz Friday #4

The answer to ragged, irregular slices that consumers got every time they had to cut a piece of bread from their store-bought loaves, Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the Rohwedder Bread Slicer. This machine that sent the first wax paper-wrapped loaf of pre-sliced bread onto shelves measured 5 feet wide and 3 feet high.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #3

Thought to be the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man, some think this drink was discovered by accident when some hungry hunter-gatherers stumbled upon an upturned beehive filled with sweet, fermented rain water. 

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #2

The stigmas are the female part of this flower which comes from a plant that might produce several flowers in a good year. Each of these flowers contains three stigmas, which are the only part of the flower that, when dried properly, become commercial, culinary grade saffron.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #1

This food has the fifth basic taste called umami and is one of the very few plant sources of Vitamin D.

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