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A sweet, carbonated, and typically non-alcoholic soft drink flavored with herbs, spices.
What is rootbeer?
What is salt?
Using salt to preserve food
What is curing?
The edible portion of a plant that derives from the female reproductive organ.
A plant often sold as the starchy powder extracted from its roots.
What is arrowroot?
A durable mineral used to create sparks when struck against steel.
What is flint?
Using an acid or fermentation to preserve food
What is pickling?
The King of fruits
What is a Durian? (Bonus points for the Queen of fruits)
A round, lumpy vegetable with a brownish-yellow skin sometimes called a swede, Swedish turnip, or neep.
What is Rutabaga?
An abrasive sharpening stone used to restore and refine the edge of blades.
What is a whetstone?
The thermal decomposition of organic or carbon-based materials at high temperatures
What is Pyrolization/Burning?
The most grown fruit in the world.
What is a banana/tomato?
A style of roasting where meat is skewered on a long rod and rotated as it cooks.
What is "Root"isserie?
A kitchen tool used to crush and grind herbs, whole spices, or nuts.
What is a mortar and pestle?
The final rest and rise period for shaped yeast or sourdough dough before baking.
What is proofing?
A horticultural technique that joins parts from two different plants so they grow as a single plant
What is grafting?
An underground structure used to naturally cool and insulate food.
What is a rootcellar.
The type of fruit peaches, mangoes, plums, and cherries are a part of
What is a stone fruit?
The chemical process between amino acids and reducing sugars often resulting in golden-brown colors in cooked foods.
What is Maillard Reaction?
The process of cross-pollinating two different varieties to create a new offspring
What is hybridization?