Test your food vocabulary with a Friday quiz
Fridays are always a good time to do something fun and different, so I thought I’d put together a little food-related vocabulary quiz. I’ve chosen some food terms from my Food Bible, the Food Lover’s Companion, which range from somewhat obscure to bizarre.
See if you can match up the word and the definition correctly. Those who are multilingual may have an advantage, but then again, they probably have an advantage when it comes to a lot of things. I will share the answers below the jump, so do not click “Read more” until you are ready to grade yourself!
Have a great weekend!
1. Duff
2. Burfi
3. Scungilli
4. Mysost
5. Burrino
6. Chikuwa
7. Drupe
8. Atole
9. Kaasdoop
10. Verjus
a. Any thin-skinned fruit with soft flesh and a hard stone or seed in the middle.
b. Dutch fondue made with Gouda cheese and served with potatoes and chunks of rye bread.
c. Another word for a whelk, or a large marine snail.
d. Kamaboko (a loaf or cake of minced or ground, steamed fish) shaped into rolls formed around a bamboo stick.
e. A special cow’s milk cheese that hails from southern Italy. Also known as burielli, butirro, manteca, piticelle and provole, depending on where the cheese is made.
f. A steamed or boiled pudding made with flour, eggs, dried fruit and spices, and once wildly popular in England and Scotland.
g. An acidic, slightly sour liquid made from unripe fruit.
h. A Norwegian cheese made with cow’s milk.
i. A very thick beverage that’s popular in Mexico and some parts of the American Southwest. Made with masa, water or milk, crushed fruit and sugar or honey.
j. An Indian sweet made from milk, sugar and sometimes other flavoring ingredients such as nuts, fruit, seeds and even vegetables like carrots.
Answers:
1. f
2. j
3. c
4. h
5. e
6. d
7. a
8. i
9. b
10. g
September 30, 2011 - 5:52 AM
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FAIL! I knew none of them.
Hmm, I knew I was in trouble when the first thought for Duff was the guy on Ace of Cakes, and that Scungilli sounded like a type of pasta. I like food, but there’s a lot I don’t know apparently! Until this morning, I had never heard of any of those…
Does my failure mean I get my foodie badge revoked?
Haha, don’t feel bad. I made this quiz pretty hard. I didn’t know what any of those things were myself before I made the quiz. But there are little hints in the words if you look at what language they seem to be or things like “verjus” having “jus” in it (juice).
I ate plum duff once while traveling, so that one I got easily, but the rest were pretty hard. It became more an exercise in decoding other languages and guessing than actually knowing what it was.
I’ve seen recipes with verjus and looked for it, to no avail around here Does anyone know if Fresh Market has it?
I knew drupe, but that’s it.
I consider myself fortunate to have gotten 4 of 10. And only because I was recently reading an article about scungilli.
Here’s one for you:
What’s the difference between “barding” and “larding?”
I heard the word scungilli mentioned on The Golden Girls once, so I thought maybe it was the cheese from southern Italy. I was wrong. Oh well…
Never felt so dumb in my life!
Obviously we need to travel more, Sandi.
To my surprise I got 5 right! However, I was only sure of two the othe ones were just dumb luck!