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“One feels so forgiving and generous after a substantial and well-digested meal — so noble-minded, so kindly-hearted.â€
Jerome K. Jerome, ‘Three Men In A Boat’ (1889)
1) What vegetable of the marrow family takes its name from a medieval French word meaning “cooked by the sun.”
2) Which state has the turkey as its state game bird, and has the largest per acre population of wild turkeys?
3) In April, 2001, Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni and Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield brought some luxury food items with them to the International Space Station.
Can you name these luxury foods?
4) This product was invented around 1910 by Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger. It is derived from wood pulp, and various types are widely used for breads, meat, produce, etc.
Name this product.
5) Why should you be very careful about drinking grapefruit juice when taking many prescription medications?
6) The fruit from this tree is called ‘monkey bread’ and is eaten as is or used to make a drink, its flesh is dried and ground into flour, and the leaves are dried and crushed for flavoring. Even the pulp of the tree is sometimes eaten.
What is the name of this tree?
7) What is the name of the yeast-raised dinner roll created accidentally by the baker at a Boston Hotel in the 1870s?
8) The blossom of this plant is the official state flower of Arizona. The white, funnel shaped, night blooming flowers grow on the trunk and branches of the plant during May and June. The red fruits are edible.
Name this plant.
9) These ‘grains’ are native to West Africa and are related to cardamom. They were previously an important spice, especially around the 14th and 15th centuries. Today they are not used much outside of West and North Africa. They are pungent and aromatic, and are used sometimes to flavor vinegars, beer and wine, in herbal remedies and in veterinary medicines.
Name these ‘grains.’
10) This family includes some of the most important staple food plants, and some of the earliest cultivated plants. Members of this family of plants are also the main source of food for domestic animals, as well as wild herbivores. Some members of this family are sugar cane, oats, corn and sorghum.
Name this plant family.
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1) Pumpkin, from the medieval French ‘pompom’, ultimately, probably from the Greek ‘pepon.’
2) Alabama.
3) Regiano Parmesan cheese and Canadian salmon.
4) Cellophane.
5) Grapefruit juice can have a major effect on the potency of various medications, and can even cause an overdose when taking prescribed doses. Grapefruit juice decreases the production of a certain enzyme in the intestines that is involved in the metabolizing of about 1/3 of all drugs. Drinking grapefruit juice can increase the concentration of many drugs in the bloodstream to 3 or 4 times the normal concentration.
6) The Baobab Tree.
7) Parker House Rolls, created at Boston’s Parker House Hotel.
8) The Saguaro Cactus.
9) Grains of Paradise (Aframomum melegueta), also known as melegueta pepper, Guinea grains, Guinea pepper and alligator pepper.
10) The Grass Family. It includes wheat, corn, barley, rice, oats, sorghum, sugar cane and bamboo.
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