Todays Kitchen Essentials
This updated toaster oven circulates air while it cooks.
What is a convection oven?
This is Greece’s capital.
What is Athens?
This is the term for a baby giraffe.
What is calf?
This woman became the queen of England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
He is Ginger Rogers’ dance partner
Who is Fred Astaire?
These pans must be seasoned and are passed down from generation to generation.
What are cast iron pans?
Tourists visit this famous ruin atop the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
The first modern trains were powered by this.
Stream
Women were rarely seen in public without this undergarment, something almost no one wears today.
What is girdle?
This ballroom dance is made up of three basic steps.
What is the waltz?
This machine uses an electron tube called a magnetron. The magnetron causes the water molecules in food to vibrate, which heats it.
What is a microwave oven (or microwave)?
Day trips are available to visit the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, which housed this oracle.
What is the Oracle of Delphi (del-FI)?
This part of the rose is used in perfume.
Oil
This Spanish-speaking island nation in the West Indies officially became a commonwealth of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
This ballroom dance is made up of four basic steps and generally is performed with big band music.
What is the foxtrot?
Chinese and other Asian foods must have this pan.
Wok Pan
The first known Olympics were held in 776 BC at this site on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
What is Olympia?
German chocolate cake is named for him.
Who is Samuel German?
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire
Who is Vivien Leigh?
Chubby Checker and Joey Dee & the Starliters released tunes about this dance.
What is the twist?
This slicer guarantees uniform thickness.
What is a mandoline?
Stroll along this main port city near Athens after a dinner at one of its many seaside tavernas (small Greek restaurants).
What is Piraeus (pie-REE-us)?
This is the name of one of the two main types of cinnamon you can find in the grocery store.
What is Ceylon or cassia?
Cassia is the most common cinnamon found in grocery stores, and Ceylon has the softer and lighter color of the two
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Charlie Allnutt in African Queen.
Who is Humphrey Bogart?
Gregory Hines is credited with modernizing and bringing into the 21st century this type of dance.
What is tap?