Cooking Terms
Scald in boiling hot water and then refreshed in ice cold water
Blanch
Out of Africa
Meryl Streep
Too much sugar in the blood
Diabetes
Bert's BFF
Ernie
Burial places underground
Catacombs
To bind the legs and wings of a bird to its body
Truss
The Way We Were
Barbra Streisand
Inability to sleep properly
Insomnia
A high-pitched voice and a contagious giggle
Elmo
"Et tu, Brute?"
Julius Caesar
Cooking food in a minimal amount of oil over a rather high heat
Saute
The Rose
Bette Midler
The "kissing disease"
Mononucleosis
Lives in a trash can
Oscar the Grouch
Largest amphitheater ever built
Colosseum
Cut food finely into matchsticks
Julienne
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn
Chronic liver damage
Cirrhosis
Loves numbers
The Count
Armed combatant who entertained audiences in violent confrontation
Gladiator
Whipped filling of chocolate and cream
Ganache
Ninotchka
Greta Garbo
Disorder of the brain characterized by repeated seizures
Epilepsy
Best known for his crazy drum solos
Animal
Artifice thought to have been designed as a temple for Roman gods
Pantheon