Food History
Our Kitchen
Latkes
Potatoes
RANDOM
100
True or False? In medieval times, they used to serve pies with live animals inside of them.
TRUE! That's where the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" came from!
100
What nontoxic alternative cleaner to students use to spray surfaces?
Vinegar.
100
What are latkes also known as? Hint: Sounds like a breakfast food that you'd have with maple syrup.
Potato Pancakes
100
True or False: Potatoes are 50% water.
False, they are over 80% water.
100
True or False: You can tell if a cranberry is ripe based on whether or not it can bounce.
True! Ripe cranberries bounce.
200
Europeans didn't want to eat potatoes when they were first brought over. What did they do with them instead?
Used them as garden/house plants.
200
What is a convection oven?
A cooking device that heats food by the circulation of hot air.
200
What are the main ingredients in latkes?
Potatoes and oil
200
True or False: Potatoes are a root.
False, they are a tuber.
200
What is the most frequently consumed vegetable in the United States of America?
The Potato.
300
True or False? C.J. Van Helsing invented the cocoa press.
False, it was C. J. Van Houten. Van Helsing is from Dracula.
300
Induction burners convert electricity into heat, using what?
Magnetic fields.
300
What is a shortcut/time saver we used when making our latkes?
We used hashbrowns instead of grating our own potatoes.
300
What color potato indicates that poisonous solanine is present?
Green.
300
What parts of the pumpkin are edible?
ALL
400
Where were potatoes first cultivated?
South America, specifically Peru.
400
When our kitchens are very clean, we might get a surprise visit from this fairy.
The kitchen fairy. 
400
What is the significance of frying latkes in oil for Hannukah?
Hannukah is a celebration of lights and is based on when a holy temple's oil that should have only lasted one night lasted for eight.
400
Why didn't Europeans eat potatoes when they were first introduced to them?
They were from a "strange new land," and too closely related to the deadly belladonna plant for comfort.
400
What is the only rock regularly consumed by humans?
Salt.
500
Where did chocolate originate?
Mesoamerica (Central America/Southern Northern America.)
500
True or false, when in class, we should only use the equipment that we are instructed to use.
True. We should keep our hands off of any equipment (ESPECIALLY KNIVES OR BLADES) that we weren't specifically instructed to use, and we should make sure not to touch any art supplies or artwork from the art class.
500
What were latkes originally fried in?
Schmaltz: rendered chicken or goose fat.
500
What caused the Irish Potato Famine, one of the deadliest famines in history?
A blight (aka a plant disease) and over reliance on the potato as a crop.
500
What is the most expensive spice? Sometimes thought to be more expensive than gold?
Saffron.