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History of Food
Labs, Labs, Labs
What's in a Grain
Recipe 101
Where in the World
100
Our earliest ancestors obtained food this way. There are still present day societies that obtain their food this way such as the !Kung.
What is a hunter and gatherers?
100
Four main ingredients found in a stock?
What is liquid, mirepoix, nourishing element and bouquet garnis?
100
Three varieties of rice.
What is short, medium and long grain?
100
The recipe format that is easiest to follow.
What is standard format?
100
The largest continent and birth place of sashimi.
What is Japan?
200
Earliest origins of farming emerged in this area.
What is the fertile crescent?
200
This legume is high in protein and one of the earliest cultivated vegetables, commonly used in Middle Eastern cuisine.
What is a chickpea?
200
The hull of the rice is removed and the grain polished
What is white rice?
200
This recipe format is written in paragraph form.
What is Narrative Format?
200
This Lebanese dip is made from eggplant.
What is Baba Ganbouj?
300
Around 6000 BCE this practice began.
What is the domestication of animals?
300
A food that makes up the dominant part of the populations diet such as rice.
What is a food staple?
300
Rice that has been partially cooked with steam then dried.
What is parboiled rice?
300
The number of servings a recipe makes.
What is the yield?
300
The birth place of Taco Rice.
What is Okinawa?
400
This farming implement was said to be far more destructive then the sword.
What is the plow?
400
Two chemical leavening agents commonly used with quick breads.
What is baking soda and baking powder?
400
Braising rice, by sauteeing the grain in oil or butter before adding liquid is known as this method.
What is the pilaf method?
400
The words in a recipes that explain what you are to do with the ingredients.
What are action words?
400
The birth place of risotto.
What is Italy?
500
Thomas Malthus prediction
What is population growth would outpace food production and there be widespread famine.
500
This ingredient, although dry, is almost always used as a wet ingredient in baked goods.
What is sugar?
500
This water grass is not a true rice.
What is wild rice?
500
5 sources for reliable recipes
What are cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, package labels, websites?
500
The name of the falafel on the McDonald's menu in Egypt?
What is McFalafel?