Appetizers
Bruschetta is an appetizer made from pieces of grilled bread that are topped with olive oil, garlic and sometimes even prosciutto, tomatoes and cheese. Bruschetta originated in this country.
What is Italy?
True or False: Gelatin is made from boiling skin, cartilage, and bones from animals such as pigs, cows, and chickens.
Wontons, a fried or steamed appetizer stuffed with vegetables, meat or any other variety of stuffings is a contribution of this cuisine.
What is Chinese?
What is the only food that can never go bad?
Honey is the only food that will last forever and will never spoil. In fact, the oldest jar of honey ever found is believed to be 5,500 years old!
French fries, which were actually created in Belgium, not France, got their name from this type of cut.
Souvlaki are grilled morsels of pork which are marinated in a blend of spices and often served in pita wraps. Souvlaki are made in this country.
What is Greece?
What food product was the first to be eaten in space? (Hint: we feed this to babies)
Applesauce
Samosas, triangle-shaped and crispy, stuffed with potatoes or meat are a delicacy made in this country.
What is India?
What is the only fruit with seeds on the outside?
Strawberries! Each average-sized strawberry has about 200 seeds on the outside.
Deer meat is known by what name?
Venison
What healthy fat containing food is used as the base of guacamole?
This chip product means “little golden things” in Spanish.
What is Doritos?
Baba Ganoush, made from eggplant has a distinctive smoky flavour. This dip is eaten usually with pita bread. Which regions is Baba Ganoush popularly served in?
Middle East and Mediterranean
This cake’s name comes from the fact that there was a pound of every ingredient in the original recipe.
What is a pound cake?
Pepper and mustard. Salt is technically not a spice, it's a mineral.
Mozzarella Sticks are sticks of mozzarella cheese dipped in egg and then covered with breadcrumbs and fried to a crispy outside and a soft inside. Where did this appetizer originate?
Where is France?
Name a cruciferous vegetable.
Vegetables in the cabbage family such as cabbage, bok choy, and cauliflower
Tempura is made by dipping seafood, vegetables or meat in a cornflour and egg batter and deep frying it to make a crispy appetizer. Tempura is made in this country.
What is Japan?
These fruits were named because early discoverers thought they looked like pine cones.
What are pineapples?
If you have Mageirocophobia, what are you afraid of?
Cooking. It’s actually extremely common but is only considered a “phobia” when the fear is so extreme that it interferes with day-to-day life.
This is the country that Caesar salad originated from.
What is Mexico? Not Italy! Caesar salad was invented in the early 1920s by Caesar Cardini, an Italian chef who owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. He moved to Tijuana from California to avoid Prohibition, and it was here, on July 4th, 1924, where Caesar is believed to have invented the Caesar Salad.
Although spam is considered a popular Hawaiian treat, where did it actually originate?
Where is Minnesota?
Tod Mun are fried fish cakes served as a popular appetizer in this cuisine.
What is Thai?
What is the common name for the Chinese gooseberry fruit?
Kiwi/ kiwifruit. Exporters changed the name of this delicious fruit to “kiwifruit” in the 1950s due, in part, to consumers not wanting to buy “Chinese” items during the peak of the cold war.
Mozzarella cheese is traditionally made from the milk of what animal?
While much of the mozzarella cheese in the world is now made from cow’s milk, traditionally, it is produced using the milk of a water buffalo.