Cooking Terms
The Spanish Job
What’s Cooking?
Arrested Development
Romantic Cliches
200

This 4-Letter Verb Means To Sprinkle Food With A Powdery Ingredient Like Confectioner’s Sugar Or Cocoa

What Is Dust

200

My Name Is Alex & I’ll Be Your Camarero, This Job

What Is A Waiter

200

The Name Of This Basic Tomato-Based Spaghetti Sauce Means “In Sailor’s Style”

What Is Marinara

200

Altogether, This “Great Soul” Of India Spent 7 Years In Prison For Political Activity 

Who Is Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

200

Having These “Like Limpid Pools” Has Been Called The King Of All Cliches 

What Are (Your Or Her) Eyes

400

To Bias-Slice Carrots, Cut Them Crosswise At This Numerical Angle

What Is A 45-Degree Angle

400

To Bring Out My Inner Artiste, I Might Strive To Be An Escultor, This Specialty 

What Is A Sculptor

400

This Comfort Food Has Ground Beef, Seasonings, Bread Crumbs & A Ketchup Glaze Baked In A Rectangular Pan

What Is Meatloaf 

400

The Business Sense Of This Naturalist & Painter Was For The Birds; He Was Jailed For Debt In 1819

Who Is John James Audubon 

400

The Words Of The Traditional Wedding Ceremony Include “Until Death Do Us” This

What Is (Until Death Do Us) Part

600

Italian For “To The Tooth”, It Describes Pasta Cooked To Be Firm

What Is Al Dente

600

It Adds Up- -A Contador Is One Of These Professionals

What Is An Accountant 

600

This Spicy Mexican Sauce Is Made With Several Kinds Of Chiles &, Of Course, Mexican Chocolate 

What Is Mole

600

This Author’s Crime? Discussing Banned Books In The Petrashevsky Circle Group In 1849; Punishment? 4 Years In Siberia 

Who Is Fyodor Dostoevsky 

600

In 2014, Selena Gomez Had A Hit With A Song Titled “The Heart Wants” This

What Is “What It Wants”

800

This Verb Meaning To Make A Decorative Edge In A Pie Crust Shares Its Name With A Woodwind 

What Is Flute (ACC: Pipe)

800

An Abogado Advocates For You, Because He Is One Of These

What Is A Lawyer

800

A Country Ham Is Named For This Virginia Town, The “Ham Capital Of The World”

What Is Smithfield 

800

In 1944 Himmler Tried To Take Over The German Rocket Program & Jailed This V-2 Rocket Scientist Who Didn’t Cooperate

Who Is Wernher Von Braun

800

Olden Knights Wore Mementoes Of Their Ladies Pinned To Their Sleeves, Not Actual These As In The Cliche

What Are Hearts

1000

It Sounds Like To Pamper Eggs, But It Means To Cook Them In Water Just Below The Boiling Point

What Is Coddle

1000

After What He Did To The Hedges, I Might Call My Gardener A Carnicero, One Of These

What Is A Butcher

1000

This Spanish Dish Of Saffron-Flavored Rice Has Shellfish Such As Shrimp, Lobster & Clams As Well As Chorizo 

What Is (Seafood) Paella 

1000

In May 1895 This Author Was Sentenced To 2 Years At Hard Labor, Mostly Served At Reading Gaol

Who Is Oscar Wilde

1000

A 17th C. Frenchman Wrote, “Absence Is To Love As” This “Is To Fire; It Extinguishes The Small, It Kindles The Great”

What Is Wind