ETIQUETTE
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
HOME EC.
IN THE KITCHEN
HERBS & SPICES
100

One of Reader's Digest's 50 Little Etiquette Rules is with 8 or fewer people at a table wait until all are served to do this

What is eat?

100

While many fresh plum varieties are clingstone the type dried to make these is usually freestone

What are prunes?

100

Make this breakfast dish of battered & fried bread called pain perdu in France

What is french toast?

100

A pestle is used to grind spices & other foods; this pestle's partner is the bowl in which the food is ground

What is the mortar?

100

This potato topper that resembles blades of grass is the smallest member of the onion family

What is chives?

200

Miss Manners says not Miss but this Joe Friday palindrome works for a woman old enough to do her own banking

What is ma'am?

200

Yellow crookneck & yellow straightneck are popular summer varieties of this veggie

What is squash?

200

The ec in home ec is short for this

What is economics?

200

Manzanilla is a green Spanish one of these a product of a Mediterranean tree

What is an olive?

200

Sprigs of this herb once thought to enhance memory are used to season lamb & chicken

What is rosemary?

300

U.S. flag code says a flag in bad shape should be destroyed in a dignified way preferably by this method

What is burning?

300

This small green vegetable native to Mexico is the essential ingredient in salsa verde

What is a tomatillo?

300

Home Ec course in which a student learns zigzag has more give than straight

What is sewing?

300

This smooth cylinder is used to flatten bread dough or to inflict a cranial injury on a philandering husband

What is a rolling pin?

300

Smoked jalapeno chili peppers which are also called by this name can be found in chili powders

What is chipotles?

400

Although some use regrets only with invitations this 4-letter abbreviated request is still common

What is RSVP?

400

In most U.S. grocery stores you should assume you are purchasing these even if the sign says yams

What are yams?

400

From the Greek for regimen it's the person in a school who sets up the cafeteria's regimen

What is the dietician?

400

Despite its name it's a slicing tool not a guitar-like instrument so don't strum it

What is a mandoline?

400

A brittle papery covering called a tunic grows around each clove & the whole bulb of this vampire-unfriendly plant

What is garlic?

500

When you're at the dinner table turn off this Apple device introduced in April 2010 even if you're winning at Fruit Ninja

What is an iPad?

500

Pickled pods of this have been called a standard hors d'oeuvre at... every Southern cocktail party

What is okra?

500

According to World Book rank of homemaker among all occupations

What is first?

500

From the Latin for strain it's a bowl-shaped strainer used to drain liquids from such foods as pasta

What is a colander?

500

Looking for an anti-inflammatory? Try a few quills of this spice

What is cinnamon?

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