World Dishes
Legend says this Italian pizza, topped with tomato, mozzarella, and basil, was named after a queen.
What is pizza Margherita?
Tony the Tiger is the mascot of this Kellogg’s cereal.
What is Frosted Flakes?
Sparkling wine can only legally carry this name if it comes from a certain region in northeastern France.
What is Champagne?
You should wash your hands for at least this many seconds.
What is 20?
This single-celled fungus makes bread rise and turns sugar into alcohol in beer.
What is yeast?
his saffron rice dish from Valencia, Spain, is cooked in a wide, shallow pan
What is paella?
This Hostess snack cake was first filled with banana cream, until a banana shortage during World War II led to the switch to vanilla.
What is the Twinkie?
Unlike tequila, this agave spirit gets its smoky flavor from agave hearts that are usually roasted in underground pits.
What is mezcal?
This is the safe minimum internal temperature for cooked poultry.
What is 165 °F?
This Korean side dish is made from fermented napa cabbage and chili
What is kimchi?
This slow-cooked Moroccan stew is named after the cone-lidded clay pot it’s cooked in.
What is tagine?
This Mars candy bar is named after the Mars family’s favorite horse.
What is Snickers?
n this second fermentation in winemaking, lactic acid bacteria turn sharp malic acid into softer lactic acid.
What is malolactic fermentation?
This system uses 7 principles to find and control hazards at critical points in food production.
What is HACCP?
This fizzy fermented tea is made using a SCOBY.
What is kombucha?
This dark sauce from Puebla blends dried chiles, spices, and chocolate. Legend credits nuns at the Convent of Santa Rosa with creating it.
What is mole poblano?
This spread came from postwar Italy, where cocoa was scarce, so chocolate was stretched with hazelnuts.
What is Nutella?
This milky, thick Mexican drink is made by fermenting aguamiel, the sap of the maguey plant.
What is pulque?
This US law was signed in 2011 and shifted the FDA’s focus from responding to outbreaks to preventing them.
What is the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)?
This Japanese soybean food is fermented by Bacillus subtilis. The bacterium’s poly-γ-glutamic acid gives the beans their sticky strings.
What is natto?
Icelanders ferment this animal’s meat and hang it to dry for months to make hákarl, because the fresh meat is toxic with urea and trimethylamine oxide. It’s also the longest-living vertebrate known.
What is Greenland shark?
ikunae Ikeda’s 1908 discovery led to Ajinomoto’s first product, a seasoning whose brand name means “essence of taste.”
What is MSG?
In sake brewing, koji mold breaks starch into sugar while yeast turns that sugar into alcohol in the same tank. This process has its own name.
In sake brewing, koji mold breaks starch into sugar while yeast turns that sugar into alcohol in the same tank. This process has its own name.
This 2021 law made sesame the ninth major food allergen in the US.
What is the FASTER Act?
Heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria use this pathway to make lactic acid, CO₂, and ethanol.
What is the phosphoketolase pathway?