FULL MEALS- A ‘foodie’ quiz

ROUND 1

1.Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh are prime growing areas of this fruit in India, but in order to satiate the rising demand, imports appear to be the only option. These fruits are consumed fresh, canned, as juice, and dried. It is a good source of dietary fibre. A recent study showed that these fruits eaten raw or consumed as a juice in addition to lowering cholesterol, relieving constipation, and reducing inflammation, can also lower alcohol levels, preventing hangovers before they even start. This is because they affect the enzymes involved in alcohol metabolism, helping the body metabolize and eliminate alcohol or even inhibit its absorption. Identify the fruit .

Sabarjilli/Pear

2. Yuksom breweries is a nearly three-decade-old Sikkimese company that sells beers, such as Dansberg, Hit and He-Man. Yuksom, which has three breweries in Sikkim, Orissa and Assam, sells over three million cases making it one of the few independent survivors in an industry carved up between UB and SABMiller.

Identify the bollywood film personality who owns this.

Danny Denzongpa

3.Entrepreneurs Philip James and Kevin Boyer masterminded this PR stunt in order to raise awareness. In just under two weeks, the Miracle Machine went viral with over 500 million media impressions as more than 200,000 people watched the Miracle Machine video, nearly 600 media outlets around the world covered the story, 6,000 people tweeted about it, and 7,000 people signed up for a potential crowd-funding platform to invest in the machine.But this turned out to be a hoax.The campaign was a co-winner for the Community Relations category at the 2014 Platinum PR Awards, was named as one of the Top 15 Internet Hoaxes of 2014 by the Washington Post and one of the 10 Best Cause Marketing Campaigns by Selfish Giving.

(a)Identify the use of the machine and (b)the cause it supported.

(a) Miracle machine converts water to wine in three days (b) Wine to Water a NGO focused on providing clean water to people around

the world founded by Doc Hendley

Philip James

4.In 1906, Hakim Abdul Majeed, a physician of Unani herbal medicine, founded his clinic in Old Delhi, the following year, he launched this drink from an establishment at Lal Kuan in Old Delhi. Following the partition of India in 1947, while the elder son stayed, the younger son migrated to Pakistan and started a separate company in Karachi. Since 1948, the company has been manufacturing the product in Pakistan, as well as in India. When Bangladesh emerged from east Pakistan the company there became separate and manufactures this drink from there. It is based on a specific Unani recipe, that combines several ingredients popularly believed to be cooling agents, such as the rose, and is used as a remedy for loo, the hot summer wind of Northern India and Pakistan. The name is popularly translated as the "refresher of the soul“ in English.In 100 years of the drink’s history Juhi chawla was signed as the first-ever Brand Ambassador in 2009.

Identify (a)this Non alcoholic concentrated squash and(b) the company that makes it.

(a) Rooh Afza (b) Hamdard

5. Edward Dyer and H.G----------- was rechristened ------- -------- Breweries Ltd 17 years after the management passed into Indian hands in 1949. The original company is said to have built perhaps Asia's and India’s first brewery and first beer ‘Lion’.Their premium original products, are mere shadows of themselves though they are still popular in the vicinity, while a new brand, added by the Indian management, has acquired a cult following that now commands a global footprint. All the products have continued to source water from the natural spring located in Solan (Himachal Pradesh), for more than 150 years, preserving the signature taste. The company in addition to alcoholic drinks also manufactures fruit juices and breakfast cereals.

(a) Identify the company and (b) the cult brand of IMFL.

(a) Mohan Meakin Ltd (b) Old Monk

6.

(a)Identify the role played by the four gentlemen wearing an accessory in the hospitality industry.

(b)Also identify the accessory the four men in the photograph wear around their neck.

(a) sommelier or wine steward

(b) Tastevin

A sommelier or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food pairing. The role is much more specialized and informed than that of a wine waiter in fine dining today. It is opined by Sommeliers Australia that the role is strategically on a par with that of the executive chef or chef de cuisine. It's a wine-tasting cup, an ancient tasting tool called a "Tastevin. Two hundred years or more ago, cellar-masters in Burgundy in France developed this cup to sample wine down in the cellar where it was dark, lit only by candles. The angular nooks and crannies in the shiny silver cup are designed to catch and reflect the light to make it easier to check the colour and clarity of the wine.In these days of electric light, it's no longer necessary to do this, and the tastevin has very little practical purpose any more. But it remains in use as a traditional "badge" for the sommelier

BOTTOMS UPOVER TO ROUND 2

ROUND 2

1. This is found in national cuisines across the Balkans, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India and the Middle East known by variants of same name. The name of these type of soups derive from a Persian word which literally means salty or brackish stew.

Name these type of Indian soups.

Shorba

2. He was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of a scale named after him in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company.Unlike methods based on high-performance liquid chromatography, the scale is an empirical measurement dependent on the ---------- sensitivity of testers and so is not a precise or accurate method to measure ------------- concentration.

Either fill up the blank (same word in both blanks) or tell what was the scale measuring.

capsaicin (Or)Pungency of chillies

3.

The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion.The crisis started in Thailand because of which it was named after a popular food item consumed in the country.

Identify the name of the food item.

Tom yam soup

4. In different modern recipes, this salad is usually made with diced boiled potatoes, carrots, brined dill pickles, green peas, eggs, celeriac, onions, diced boiled chicken (or sometimes ham or bologna sausage), tart apples, with salt, pepper, and mustard added to enhance flavour, dressed with mayonnaise.

Lucien Olivier was a chef of Belgian origin. The secret of the recipe of the above salad was never disclosed until his death. Lucien Olivier died in Moscow at age 45 in 1883.

Identify the popular name of this salad.

Russian salad

5. This company launched India ke Hunger Ki Bajao, a global fund raising drive to fight hunger amongst underprivileged school children in India. It seeks donation for The Akshaya Patra Foundation's mid-day meal programme, which currently serves 1.4 million children across schools in India.The brand ambassador of this brand is Bollywood star Ranveer singh.

Identify the brand under which noodles, sauces, chutneys and soups are sold.

Ching’s secret

6. The original version of this soup consisted of a broth from chicken and lamb, fried onions and curry powder. Today it normally designates a thickened soup that is strongly spiced with curry powder and nutmeg. Often, strips of vegetables, nuts and rice are added, sometimes also port wine.

Identify this English soup which derives its name from a Tamil word.

Time’s up.........Over to next round

ROUND 3 STARTERS

1. “I tasted the sweetmeat prepared by Jalajoga. It is satisfying. It has a distinct taste, which is why it is to be appreciated. The curd (dahi) that was served with it deserves special praise.”

The above statement is part of a advertisement for sweets and sweet curd made by a chain called jalajoga.

Identify the famous person who endorsed it, who had also featured in hundreds of advertisements endorsing from ghee to skin creams to sweets to harmoniums during his lifetime.

GurudevRabindranath Tagore

2. Identify the issue, mocked by the satirical ad below, which went viral on the net recently.

The Islamic State group is being mocked online after claims it faked footage of battles in its propaganda videos, and even used the soft drink Vimto as fake blood.

It’s claimed that in one video, IS fighters pretended to be dead Houthi rebels and were daubed with fake blood in the form of the soft drink Vimto, leading to the nickname the ‘Vimto Caliphate’. The speech bubble says: “We have armies in Iraq and Syria that are hungry like lions: they drink Vimto and eat samosas.”

3. Inbisco India Pvt. Ltd., the Indian arm of Indonesian food and confectionary player Mayora Group has invested a lot in India and have been marketing their products for quite some time.

Their present food or snack portfolio includes 6 products including Danisa cookies, juicy milk candies, beng beng chocolates, joymee instant noodles and choki choki chocolate paste.

Identify their most famous product (candy) that has been left out of the list.

KOPIKO

4. What is the speciality of the cafe – ‘sheroes’ hangout, at Agra?

The cafe is being run by acid attack survivors

5. In 2010 — on one of his visits he created a special gravy-based chicken dish for Noor Mohammadi Hotel in south Mumbai and the dish was named after him. Recently the dish was served free of cost for a day from noon to midnight by the hotel to celebrate something.

(a)Identify the dish, (b)the creator of the dish and (c) the cause of celebration.

(a) Chciken Sanju baba

(b) Sanjay Dutt

(c) Release of Sanjay Dutt from Prison

6. During South Korea's involvement in the Vietnam War its government requested American help to ensure that South Korean troops, get X in the field; South Korean president Park Chung-hee told U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that X was "vitally important to the morale of Korean troops".

Identify X

KIMCHIKimchi also spelled kimchee or gimchi, is a traditional fermented Korean side dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made from napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber as a main ingredient.

Ok Are you done with the score?Can we please go for the main course?

Round 4Main course.........

1.

Chefs Mark Phoenix and Fredrik Forsell have been organising this event for eight years now. They organize a meal for 1,350 people approximately. The dinner lasts for approximately 4 hours.

Identify the annual grand dinner they help organise every year where the list of guests ranges from the royalty to the students.

Nobel Banquet (Swedish: Nobelfesten)

The King and Queen of Sweden host the banquet for Nobel Laureates and special guests at the Stockholm City Hall on December 10 every year after the Nobel Prize ceremony.

2.

According to the founding legend of the annual giant Easter X of Bessières, Haute-Garonne, when Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were travelling through southern France, they decided to rest for the night near the town of Bessières. Napoleon feasted on an X prepared by a local innkeeper that was such a culinary delight that he ordered the townspeople to gather all the Y in the village and to prepare a huge X for his army the next day.

Identify X and Y

X – OmeletteY - eggs

3. “Outredgeous” is a particular variety of red romaine lettuce. This type of lettuce is one key ingredient of Caesar's salad and considered to be the most nutrient of all lettuces.

Why was this veggie in the news recently?

one small bite for man, one giant leap for.....Scott Kelly

This variety was the first veggies to be grown in the space (International space station) and consumed by astronauts

4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion to beverage companies to include two per cent fruit juice in their carbonated offerings is stirring up fresh competition between MNCs and home-grown players in the ₹14,000-crore domestic beverage category.

“The launch of our latest ‘Juice with Fizz’ innovation, is rooted in Govt’s vision for the food processing sector and the role that the beverage industry can play in benefitting Indian farmers. It is also in keeping with our focus of providing more choice to the consumer. With Maaza and Minute Maid range of juices already in our stable, the addition of ----- ------ ----- will allow us to further leverage our system’s value chain in procuring ingredients and raw materials from the fruit farming community”. The product contains 10.4% juice content and promises to provide the consumers an authentic taste experience with an extra zing of carbonation. - President of Coca –Cola India.

Identify the product. (2016 launch)

FRUIT FIZZ

Above picture used for representation purpose only

FANTA GREEN MANGO

5. X is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness). People taste it through receptors specific to glutamate. Glutamate is widely present in savoury foods, such as meat broths and fermented products. It can also be artificially added as Mono Sodium Glutamate. X’S effect is to balance taste and round out the overall flavour of a dish. x enhances the palatability of a wide variety of foods. X was first scientifically identified in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda from the dashi kombu dish. The literal meaning of X in Japanese is ‘delicious taste’.

Identify X

umami

6. Prabhal Mohandas was born and brought up in Palakkad, Kerala with a rich family history in agriculture. He, however, went on to pursue higher education and did his engineering as well as an MBA. He spent a good decade with the likes of HSBC and Reliance and then got the urge to come back to his roots to start an enterprise around agriculture. Belonging to the technology age, Prabhal realized the power of the mobile and web, and with the limited funds, he had come with a mobile app.

(a)Identify the app and (b)the GI tagged product he sells through it.

(a)Make my rice(b) Palakkadan matta rice

Where are the sweets? ...Bring it on.........

Round 5Desserts

1. Recipe and cooking instructions:

Sift gram and maida flours together. Heat ghee in a heavy saucepan. Add flour mixture and roast on low till light golden. Keep aside to cool a little, stirring occasionally. Prepare sugar syrup simultaneously. Make syrup out of sugar, water and milk. Bring syrup to 2 1/2 thread consistency. Pour at once into the flour mixture. Beat well with a large fork till the mixture forms threadlike flakes. Sprinkle the charmagaz(melon) seeds and elaichi .

The sweet is related to Pişmaniye which is a Turkish sweet made by blending maida flour roasted in butter and pulled sugar. It is sometimes garnished with ground pistachio nuts.

Identify the sweet from the recipe and cooking instructions given above.

Soan papdi

2. Identify the machine you see below.

Roller kulfi or disco fruit kulfi A huge iron cylinder is filled with crushed ice. This cylinder is then put in a stand that has a pedal on one side. It is important to roll the cylinder using a pedal; otherwise the ice will melt away. This is taken care of by the two men every time: one who does not lose a single minute to roll the cylinder; and the other who prepares the layers of kulfi by crushing fruits and pouring rabri and milk. All different kinds of fruits – mango, banana, papaya, orange, pomegranate, etc. are added one after the other and interspersed with rabri. The ice inside the roller freezes the juices and with a knife, layers of frozen kulfi are collected in a ‘dona’. The kulfi is fresh and ready to eat before it melts.

3. In the famous Ad, promoting Google, An elderly man's granddaughter uses Google to track down his childhood friend, whom he hasn't seen since the 1947 partition that tore the region into two separate countries. Identify the traditional sweet mentioned in the conversations in the ad.

JHAJARIYA (sweet corn halwa ) is a delicacy of Indian/Pakistan origin made of corn, milk, ghee and sugar garnished with raisins and nuts.

4. Identify the popular product(brand) sold in India which is named after a village in Birmingham, United kingdom.

Clue: On the right you can see the railway station(purple in colour) in the village.

CadburyBournville

5. When soaked in water, the seeds of sweet basil plant become gelatinous.

Identify the popular dessert which contains these seeds.

Falooda

6. Established in the year 1953, Maami Chedathy's Food Products is known for creating X.

The key to X is the mandaka or the outer covering. The batter for the mandaka is made of maida or wheat flour. The stuffing of the X is made of avilose podi that is roasted rice mixed with coconut and a tinge of sugar. Once the mandaka is ready, it is then rolled into a cone and the avilose podi is placed in it. In order to hold the stuffing firmly inside the cover, the edges of the cone are sealed with sticky mixture of lemon juice and sugar.

Identify X, which is normally available in Kottayam only.

Churuttu

Thank you Bon appétit

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