Although South Florida is not in the tropics, it has what type of climate?
What is tropical?
100
South Florida and Caribbean native cooking method that inspired America's most distinctive cooking method.
What is barbeque?
100
Crackers called hearts of palm "swamp cabbage", and prepared it the same as what type of vegetable?
What is cabbage?
100
Many people exiled from this country founded cigar factories in Florida, and by the turn of the 20th Century, the city of Tampa was producing almost as many cigars as their home country of __________________.
What is Cuba?
100
Because its early economy, culture and cuisine were based on the plantation system, northern Florida is identified with what region of the country?
What is the Plantation South
200
Just south of Okeechobee, near Belle Glade, cane fields were planted and gave birth to what Florida industry.
What is sugar?
200
The second important foundation of Florida native cuisine, provided Florida natives primary dietary starch.
What is sweet potatoes?
200
Key West settlers were called this, named after the shellfish that were an important part of their diet.
What is conch?
200
Key Limes are small and seeded, with a complex flavor and floral aroma. They traveled to the Mediterranean region with Arab traders, but originated in what part of the world?
What is southeast Asia?
200
Many of Florida's early cattle ranchers were members of the Plantation South's working class, typically descendants of white indentured servants, and were known by this name__________________.
Who are Crackers?
300
Miami Beach became a playground for the rich and famous, and the area was known as Fisher's "_________________________"
What is Billion Dollar Sandbar?
300
Sofkee is a nourishing gruel made by simmering cracked corn with water and then thickening it with this__________.
What is Coontie flour?
300
These two groups comprise South Florida's two first-settler groups.
What is Conchs & Crackers?
300
This chef focused on refining and updating the cuisines of South America, and the Spanish Caribbean, which was known as Nuevo Latino cuisine
Who is Doug Rodriguez
300
Sliced palm hearts in vinaigrette dressing was dubbed this name because palm heart had suddenly become an expensive and sought after produce
What is Millionaire's Salad?
400
Although these trees were introduced by the early Spanish explorers, commercial cultivation of the product didn't begin until 1900.
What is avocado?
400
Seminole Indians traversed the South Florida waterways using this type of canoe.
What is a dugout?
400
Around the Keys, treacherous shoals and violent weather caused this to happen frequently.
What are shipwrecks?
400
By the 1980's, the cooking of many South Florida restaurants was so strongly influenced by the Caribbean that food writers began using this term to describe it.
What is Floribbean?
400
Just after the Civil War, Florida's production of this item totaled one million boxes.
What is citrus?
500
The River of Grass
What is Lake Okeechobee?
500
The four original tribes of Florida.
What are the Calusa, the Ais, Jaega, and the Timucua?
500
The Jamaican version of barbeque in which chicken or pork is coated with a spicy seasoning paste and allowed to cure overnight or up to several days.
What is Jerk?
500
The pioneers of the new South Florida style of restaurant cooking were a group of young, innovative chefs who called themselves this.
What is the Mango Gang?
500
Cuban inspired cooking flourishes is these two major enclaves.