Food & Drink Trivia
Where does saffron come from? What makes a soufflé rise? Food trivia covers dishes from every corner of the world, the ingredients behind them, and the kitchen science that makes it all work.
It's one of Kenna's most approachable categories — plenty of questions you'll know from your own kitchen, with harder ones for the people who read cookbooks for fun.
- 305questions
- 163easy
- 72medium
- 70hard
What's covered
- World cuisines
- Ingredients & spices
- Famous dishes
- Kitchen science
- Cheese & bread
- Drinks
Food & Drink Trivia: sample questions
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- easy
What term describes the process of briefly heating milk to kill harmful bacteria, named after a 19th-century French scientist?
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Pasteurisation
The process is named after French microbiologist Louis Pasteur, whose 1860s research showed that heating could deactivate unwanted microorganisms in wine.
- easy
What mashed fruit forms the base of guacamole, the popular Mexican dip?
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Avocado
Avocados are actually a fruit, not a vegetable — botanically they're a large single-seeded berry.
- medium
In 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda isolated glutamate from kombu seaweed and gave a name to which savory 'fifth basic taste'?
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Umami
Ikeda extracted about 30 grams of the umami substance from 12 kilograms of kelp, then patented the seasoning we now know as MSG.
- medium
What is the name of the chilled raw-vegetable soup made from tomato, cucumber, pepper, garlic and olive oil, originating in Andalusia, Spain?
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Gazpacho
Gazpacho's earlier versions had no tomato at all — tomatoes weren't added to the recipe until the 19th century.
- hard
A classic Negroni is equal parts gin, Campari and which third ingredient?
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Sweet vermouth
The Negroni was reputedly born around 1919 in Florence when Count Camillo Negroni asked bartender Fosco Scarselli to strengthen his Americano by replacing the soda water with gin.
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