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1.Tapas in Spain. Banchan in Korea. Dim Sum in China. What 'M' is the equivalent in Greece?
2.Originating in the French Quarter of New Orleans, what 'J' describes this popular dish of West African, French, and Spanish influence, consisting mainly of meat and vegetables mixed with rice?
3.What fruit is double distilled to make the clear, colourless fruit brandy Kirsch?
4.What type of food are Swedish Peanut and Russian Banana?
5.What 'P' describes this Italian sweet bread loaf, traditionally prepared and enjoyed over Christmas and New Year?
6.What is the French culinary term for a bundle of herbs usually tied together with string and mainly used to prepare soup, stock, and various stews?
7.What is the main vegetable ingredient of a Chicken Divan?
8.What ginger-like rhizome is commonly associated with Thai and Lao cuisine?
9.Since overtaking Italian dressing in 1992, what is the best-selling salad dressing in the United States?
10.What 'C' describes a North African staple dish made by steaming granules of ground durum wheat?
11.What type of nut is this?
12.What is primarily produced and sold at a French 'boulangerie'?
13.In Italian cuisine, what type of food is Zampone?
14.Adobo is a national dish of what Southeast Asian country?
15.Galia, or Sarda, is a variety of what fruit?
16.What 'C' describes a French sauce typically made of mushrooms, shallots, white wine and herbs?

17.What is fermented to produce the Japanese wine saké (酒)?
18.What vegetable is the principal ingredient of Rösti?
19.With its characteristic flip-top bottle, from what country does Grolsch originate?
20.In Japanese cuisine, what 'W' describes this edible seaweed?
21.An oenologist (enologist) specialises in the scientific process of making what?
22.In the USA, if a dish is served à la mode (in fashion), what is it served with?
23.Eaten whole in its pod while still unripe, what 'S' describes this variety of thin, flat pea?
24.In French cuisine, what type of foodstuff are boudin blanc and boudin noir?
25.Caesar salad was invented in 1924, named after a hotel, and its owner, in what country?
26.Vietnam's national dish, what 'P' describes this noodle soup?
27.What 'M' describes a type of partially refined to unrefined brown sugar with a strong molasses content and flavour?
28.Typically made from black peppercorns, mace, cinnamon, cloves, brown cardamom, nutmeg, and green cardamom; what South Asian spice blend gets its name from the Hindi for "hot spice mix"?
29.What is the name of this traditional New Zealand biscuit made from flour, butter, cornflakes, sugar and cocoa powder, topped with chocolate icing and a half walnut?
30.What sauce is a mixture of egg yolk, melted butter, and lemon juice, usually seasoned with salt, and either white pepper or cayenne pepper?
31.What two alcoholic drinks make up a "Rusty Nail"?
32.What type of food are wood ear, straw and portobello?

33.What 'C' describes an apple brandy from the French region of Lower Normandy?
34.Originated in Venice, Italy, a Bellini is a cocktail made with Prosecco and a purée of what fruit?
35.If a distilled drink is 80 proof by U.S. standards and 70 proof by Imperial standards, what is its percentage alcohol by volume?
36.One of the most expensive in the world, what is the name of the Indonesian coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet?
37.In American English, they're often called snap peas or snow peas. What French term is their more common name in British English?
38.French for "under vacuum", what name is given to a method of cooking in which food is vacuum-sealed in a plastic pouch or glass jar and then placed in a water bath or steam environment for longer than normal cooking times?
39.The world's most traded spice, from what country did black pepper originate?
40.What 'M' describes this soft Italian acid-set cream cheese?
41.What vegetable is known in German as Kartoffel?
42.What company did franchisor Ray Kroc purchase outright in 1961, later expanding it to a global franchise?
43.What is the key ingredient of a traditional satay sauce?
44.In what decade was Diet Coke first introduced in the United States?
45.What cheese is traditionally used in the Italian dessert Tiramisu?
46.What is name of the French stew made with tomatoes, courgettes (zucchini), aubergines (eggplant), bell peppers, onion, garlic and herbs?
47.What 'F' is the Italian word for flour?
48.If a Spanish or Mexican dish is served con queso, with what is it served?
49.What is the name of the salad dressing based on mayonnaise, with red chilli sauce, minced green onions and minced green chilli peppers, normally an accompaniment to crab or shrimp?
50.What name is given to a wine bottle twice the size of a Standard bottle?


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