CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONSANSWERS ARE BELOW (A New quiz every day) TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· The U.S. Department of Labor upgraded the definition of 'Chef' from 'domestic' to 'professional.'
· Red Dye No. 2, was banned by the FDA because it might cause cancer. There are no Red M&Ms for 11 years.
· Pierrier water was introduced in the U.S.
· 'Hotel California' was released by The Eagles. 2) Name this vegetable:
In ancient Egypt, paintings of this vegetable appear on the inner walls of the pyramids and in the tombs of both the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom. It is mentioned as a funeral offering and they are depicted on the banquet tables of the great feasts. They were shown upon the altars of the gods. Frequently, a priest is pictured holding them in his hand or covering an altar with a bundle of their leaves or roots. In mummies, these vegetables have frequently been found in the pelvic regions of the body, in the thorax, flattened against the ears and in front of the collapsed eyes. They have been found on the chest, and some have been found attached to the soles of the feet and along the legs. King Ramses IV, who died in 1160 B.C., was entombed with this vegetable in his eye sockets.
In India as early as the sixth century B.C., the famous medical treatise Charaka - Sanhita celebrates them as medicine - a diuretic, good for digestion, the heart, the eyes and the joints.
Likewise, Dioscorides, a Greek physician in first century A.D., noted several medicinal uses of this vegetable. The Greeks used them to fortify athletes for the Olympic Games.
The Romans ate them regularly and carried them on journeys to their provinces in England and Germany. Before he was overcome and killed by the volcano's heat and fumes, Pliny the Elder catalogued the Roman beliefs about the efficacy of them to cure vision, induce sleep, heal mouth sores, dog bites, toothaches, dysentery and lumbago. 3) These dried flower buds are picked and dried before they open. The tree is a member of the myrtle family and is native to the Spice Islands of Indonesia (Moluccas).
ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:1) All of the events took place in 1976.
(Food History Timeline: 1976-1980) 2) Onions. 3) Cloves. TOP | 
