Wednesday’s Culinary Quiz
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on June 11, 2008 – 7:59 am -1. This is a type of custard consisting of egg yolks, sugar and cream and flavored with amber or musk. It was popular during the time of Louis XIV. In Le Patissier francais, La Varenne instructs to combine the egg yolks, fresh cream and sugar, a little salt, beat together and cook in a flat dish or deep plate, brown the top with a salamander and then sprinkle with perfumed water and serve with musk-flavored sugar to sweeten.
2. Who said this: “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
3. This Italian dish literally means ‘jump into the mouth’. A Roman specialty, it consists of fine slices of veal fried in butter and then topped with small slices of ham. It is then flavored with sage and gently braised in white wine.
4. What were John Lennon’s favorite foods?
5. How much did a Hong Kong property tycoon spend on an Italian white truffle, the most ever paid for this delicacy?
6. What is the substance found in hops that lends beer its bitter taste and pungent aroma? BONUS: What is the most expensive beer in the world?
7. What did Bill Clinton say he would want his last meal to be if he knew the world was about to end?
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1. creme brulee?
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3. veal saltimbocca
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5. $20,000 dollars?
6. mold?
7. Oh boy. I am SO not going there.
It’s easy….think south of the border….
1. flan
Nope. This one, I concede, is hard yakka!
What the heck. I’ll play.
1. muskard
2. Mel Brooks
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4. Both kinds: fish, and chips.
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6. Frog spawn. That’s why they call them hops. The most expensive beer in the world is the stuff I drank in Tahiti. It had to be. The price shocked the heck outta me.
7. Fried chicken and Twinkie pie.