I won, I won!

So yesterday, Amy of Cooking With Amy, had a contest for a free book, The United States of Arugula, by David Kamp. It is all about how we became so obsessed with FOOD! To enter the contest you had to know some food trivia! And I won a free book!

The Questions were:
1. The characteristic orange-pink color of salmon is due to a chemical relative of the carotene pigment that colors carrots
True or False..

Which is True.

2. The olive tree was most likely cultivated
a) 5,000 years ago
b) 2,000 years ago
c) 1,000 years ago

Jesus gave his famous Sermon on the Mount, from the Mount of Olives more than 2000 years ago.. so they had to be older than that!

3. Sake is best drunk
a) As young as possible
b) When aged

Young, there is not much aged Sake out there on the market, because I believe it only has about a 6 month shelf life before the taste starts to go.

4. Surimi in Japanese means
a) Fake fish
b) Fishcake
c) Minced fish

Minced fish, its like a paste almost. Surimi means puree or slurry. It's how they make Krab Legs here in the US.

5. Bean curd was invented in Japan
True or False

Nope, that was invented in China actually.

6. The word sausage comes from the Latin word
a) Cure
b) Salt
c) Stuff

The latin word is botulus, or salus, meaning Salted or Preserved, just like a Cure.

7. Eggs are what percent of a hen's weight?
a) 5%
b) 3%
c) 1%

3%, I took a wild guess at that one.

8. Which is richer?
a) Pound cake
b) Butter cake

Definitely Pound Cake.. Some of the old recipes call for as much as a POUND of Butter!


I have to say Thank you Amy! It was a fun quiz and I am really excited about reading this book!