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From the Kitchen
What familiar dishes are made of, and where they came from.
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Which spice is harvested from the stigmas of a crocus flower?
Food & Drink
Ingredients, dishes and where they actually come from.
Food is the subject everyone is an expert in until asked where anything comes from. This category covers the ingredients hiding in familiar dishes, the places that gave them their names, and the simple chemistry that turns raw things into meals. It travels widely, because almost no cuisine stayed where it started, and the interesting part is usually the journey. The explanations do the useful work of connecting a dish to its origin without pretending there is one true version of anything. Useful for cooking, for travelling, and for settling arguments at the table.
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From the Kitchen
What familiar dishes are made of, and where they came from.
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How Food Is Made
Fermentation, curing, baking — the processes behind ordinary food.
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What makes bread dough rise?
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Drinks of the World
Coffee, tea, beer and spirits — what they are made from and where they come from.
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Coffee is made from the roasted seeds of what?
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Dishes and Where They Come From
Ten famous dishes traced back to the country, the region and sometimes the pot they were named after.
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The layered moussaka topped with béchamel sauce is commonly credited to a cook from which…
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Ingredients and Where They Grow
Which plant a spice comes from, which part of it you are eating, and which continent it started on.
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Vanilla pods grow on a plant belonging to which family?
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The Science of Cooking
What is actually happening to the proteins, sugars and gases when heat hits food.
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The browning of a seared steak and of toast is chiefly which reaction?
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How Food Was Preserved Before Fridges
Salting, smoking, canning and freezing — and why each of them works.
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Salting preserves food principally by doing what?
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How many Food & Drink quizzes are there?
7 published quizzes in this subject, 70 questions in total. Every one is researched, written and checked by hand.
How hard are they?
The mix here is 3 easy, 3 medium and 1 hard. Difficulty is about how obscure the answers are, not how fast you have to be — there is no timer on any quiz.
How long does one take?
About 7 minutes on average, ranging from 6 to 8. Playing every food & drink quiz would take roughly 1 hour.
Which one should I start with?
"From the Kitchen" is the gentlest way in — 10 questions, about 6 minutes, rated easy.
Do I need an account?
No. Every quiz is free and playable straight away. An optional free account only saves your scores across devices.
Do you explain the answers?
Yes — every question has a short explanation of why the right answer is right, shown the moment you answer, whether you got it or not.