What is it???
This herb is an essential component of a Pizza Margherita, along with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil and salt.
What is Basil?
This chocolate-flavored coffee drink gets its name from a city in Yemen that was once a center of the coffee trade.
What is a mocha?
This nutty, chocolate, and caramel confection is the all-time best-selling candy bar in the USA and was introduced in 1930 by the M&Ms Mars company.
What is Snickers?
As defined by chef Auguste Escoffier, the five "mother sauces" of French cooking are béchamel, espagnole, tomate, velouté, and this fifth sauce, which is commonly featured in Eggs Benedict.
What is Hollaindaise?
Mageirocophobia is the fear of this common kitchen activity.
What is cooking?
This fruit has more vitamin C than oranges, and is the only of its kind to produce seeds on the outside.
What are strawberries?
This staple of Korean cuisine is made from salted and fermented vegetables. The most common ingredients are cabbage and Korean radishes.
What is Kimchi?
These three classic flavors make up Neopolitan ice cream.
What are chocolate strawberry, and vanilla?
During the 1830’s this common red sauce was thought to cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism.
What is ketchup?
Alliumphobia is the fear of the bulb of this flowering plant.
What is garlic?
This "sweet banana" is used frequently in Latin cooking, and as a salty, roasted snack.
What are plantains?
Considered a loan word from Greek, this difficult-to-spell name of the dip or sauce is made of strained yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, and other seasonings. It is most often served cold as part of an appetizer.
What is Tzatziki?
Easily distinguishable by its fluffy baked egg white topping or meringue, this pie is prepared with a shortcrust base, and filled with a lemon custard. It is usually served on its own, but can be topped with cream or custard.
What is lemon meringue pie?
This sauce is fermented then brewed. It's made with soybeans and it also contains roasted grains, water and salt.
what is soy sauce?
Lachanophobia effects kids all around the world (and some adults, too!) because they have a strong aversion to this food
What are vegetables?
D'affinois, Humbolt Fog, and casu marzu are all types of this diverse food product that's been created since before recorded history.
What is cheese?
Sushi is not an interchangeable term with "raw fish" but is a more general term for a Japanese way of preparing and serving vinegared rice. Speaking of raw fish, this is the term for the raw fish salad served in a bowl which originated in Hawaii.
What is Poke?
The word "chocolate" stems from the word "xocolatl" (meaning "bitter water"). The word comes from this ancient civilization.
Who were the Aztecs?
This sauce that's essential for any good mac 'n cheese is made of butter, flour and milk or cream. It is used to bind ingredients and thicken a dish, and can be used to cook vegetables such as broccoli or cauliflower.
What is bechamel?
This is the impressive technical term for the fear of different foods touching each other.
What is Brumotactillophobia?
Although back, collar, and jowl all exist as cuts of this cured meat, the most popular is "streaky" which comes from the pork belly and is often served as a side dish during breakfast.
What is bacon?
This fruit, sometimes known as the alligator pear, is likely to have originated in South Central Mexico. Botanically speaking, it is a large berry with a single seed and is now grown in dozens of countries in both hemispheres.
What is an Avocado?
The shaved ice dessert, shikashika, starts with carving blocks of ice from a glacier by hand, using an axe. The blocks are then carried down the mountain on mules. The shaved ice is flavored with brightly-colored sweet syrups, and sold in plastic bags at festivals. It is very popular in this country.
What is Peru
Puddings, creme anglaise, and pastry cream are in this family of desserts that are cooked on a stovetop by stirring eggs, cream or milk, sugar, and flavorings together.
What is a custard?
This is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
What is Arachibutyrophobia?