Calling all Foodies
A cold, sweet treat made of milk, cream, and sugar, often served in a cone.
What is ice cream?
The woman who is your mother's mother.
What is a grandmother?
This is often said to be in the eye of the beholder
What is beauty?
It means that beauty is a subjective term. You can find beauty in most everything if you look closely enough.
The full name of the man who wrote the children's stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
A large, beautiful, colorful flying insect whose babies start as caterpillars.
What is a butterfly?
A thin pancake used in sweet and savory dishes.
What is a crepe?
While Americans celebrate Groundhog Day on February 2, France celebrates crepes and devotes that day to eating them.
This is the name given to the day in the spring when we celebrate the woman who raised us.
What is Mother's Day?
Frank Sinatra’s eyes were famously this color.
What is (deep) blue?
One of his nicknames is “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” Another favorite is “Chairman of the Board.”
This punctuation mark shows excitement or a loud voice at the end of a sentence.
What is an exclamation point?
Meteorologists in New England include “peak color” in their weather forecasts to indicate the best time to view changes to these.
What are leaves?
People come from all over to experience these beautiful expanses of color in the little Hallmark towns that dot the landscape of New England. Other parts of the country have brilliant fall color displays, including the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains.
Classic dessert featuring sliced bananas in a sauce and flambeed at the table.
What is bananas Foster?
New Orleans was an import hub for bananas in the early 20th century, and the dish originated at Brennan’s in the French Quarter.
This First Lady was married to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and after his death, she married a wealthy Greek shipping magnate.
Who is Jacqueline Kennedy (or Jackie O.)?
This punctuation mark is visible at the beginning and end of a spoken quote.
What are quotation marks (or speech marks)?
E. B. White wrote this children’s book about a spider and a pig.
What is Charlotte’s Web?
Charlotte is the spider, and Wilbur is the pig.
October brings cool evenings, so strike up the firepit and make these three-ingredient campfire desserts.
What are s’mores?
They bring a big bang for the effort. Roast marshmallows over the fire, break a graham cracker in half, and place marshmallows and half a Hershey bar in between the two graham cracker halves.
Green sauce made of basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, parmesan cheese, and salt.
What is pesto?
It can be served on pasta, chicken, and fish.
This term is used for the special, expensive item of clothing a family passes down to a bride to wear on her wedding day.
What is an heirloom?
The color of cloth worn by Robin Hood and his merry men in the forest.
What is green?
The British author, A.A. Milne, wrote stories about this silly old bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Who is Winnie-the-Pooh?
A popular lawn game where you roll a wooden ball through a small wire wicket.
What is Croquet?
New Orleans sandwich consisting of battered, bite-sized, fried shrimp with lettuce and tomato, topped with a remoulade sauce and served on an eight-inch loaf of French bread.
What is a po’ boy?
The trick to perfect fried shrimp is to dry the shrimp thoroughly, batter it, and refrigerate it before frying. The sandwich can also be made with fried oysters.
This famous children's author wrote the classic book Little Women, about the four March sisters.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
This famous Renaissance painter created the Mona Lisa and was also known for his notebooks filled with drawings and schematics.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He authored East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
His writings focused on economic hardship and social issues. In 1962, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for combining “sympathetic humor and keen social perception” in his writing.
You might get lost temporarily when you take your grandchildren along to this maze.
What is corn maze?
It’s a maze in a maize field—a maze carved through a working field of corn.