Food and Drink Quiz 4 (Questions only)

1. Which cooking term is used to describe vegetables cut into very thin strips and cooked slowly in butter?

2. What does the phrase al dente mean?

3. What is bouillon?

4. What is compote?

5. What cooking term is given to a garnish of spinach?

6. 'Plashing' is a term used to describe the collecting or gathering of what kind of nuts?

7. What is pumpernickel?

8. What are bigoli, farfalle, rigati and pansotti?

9. What are sometimes called Chinese Gooseberries?'

10. Gnocchi is a food from Italy. What is it?

11. If you were served crudit?s as a starter before your main meal what would you be eating?

12. Which vegetable is also known as the spinach beet or seakale beet?

13. Kale is a variety of which winter vegetable?

14. What is gazpacho?

15. Petit Fours means literally 'little ovens'. What are they?

16. What is beeswing?

17. What is sauerkraut?

18. In Italy, if you were served pesce martello, what would you be about to eat?

19. Umbles can be made into a pie and gave rise to the expression 'to eat (h)umble pie'. What are umbles?

20. Agar-agar is often used in cooking. What is it?