International Cuisine Trivia

91. Pierogi are a specialty from where?

From Quiz Match Savory with the Country

Answer: Poland

According to my Polish friends, this dish is pronouced PEE-rogi, but many dictionaries show it as puh-RO-gi. Some claim the pierogi is Russian. See note on question 5.

From Quiz A Mediterranean Dinner Party

Answer: Olives

Though olive oil is one of the cornerstones of Mediterranean food culture, there are hardly any recipes that feature olives as the main ingredient. The Provençal spread known as "tapenade" is a remarkable exception. This tasty concoction - whose name comes from the Provençal "tapeno", meaning "caper" - consists of olives (usually black) and capers, blended or crushed to a paste in a mortar with olive oil as a binder. Other seasonings that can be added to tapenade are anchovies, garlic, herbs, and lemon juice. Created in the 1880s in a Marseilles restaurant, tapenade (whose original recipe included anchovies, tuna, and cognac) was initially meant to be used as a stuffing for hard-boiled eggs. Nowadays it is served as an appetizer with crusty bread or raw vegetables, or also used in cooking as an ingredient for dressings and sauces, especially those meant for vegetables or seafood. Though a relatively recent creation, tapenade is believed to have been based on a similar recipe dating from Roman times, and called "sampsa". While olives are now seen mainly as a snack or accompaniment to drinks, in Ancient Rome and Greece they were often eaten with bread and cheese for breakfast or lunch. Similar preparations to tapenade are found in Spain (where it is called "olivada") and Italy, though without capers. This question was written by LadyNym of Phoenix Rising's Red Crew, who thinks tapenade is delicious even if a bit too salty.

From Quiz Round the World the Long Way, One Meal at a Time

Answer: Buñuelos

These little gems called Buñuelos are fried dough fritters that originated in Spain and Portugal but there are many regional versions and regional differences in Latin American countries. What make them distinctly Colombian? You need to use Costeño cheese (Queso Costeño), a local saltier, harder cheese than the usual Mexican Queso Fresco. In Bolivia, tamales are somewhat different to what we know as tamales from Mexico. Chopped pork and maize are prominent with added vegetables and eggs. All steamed in a banana leaf. Arepas are thick corn tortillas, made often with added cheese and served with butter and if it's breakfast - scrambled eggs are frequently added. Emapanadas are also different to their Mexican counterparts. In Colombia, the empanada is a small cocoon of crispy, cresent-shaped fried dough containing a mixture of meat (ground beef, often chicken,) potatoes and onions. You take a bite then add hot-spiced sauce called aji containing chili, tomato, coriander (cilantro), onions, and vinegar, plus or minus guacamole.

From Quiz Sending Their Best

Answer: Native people in Mexico

Tacos originated in the Valley of Mexico and were created by Native Americans who wrapped fish in soft bread. The dish was adapted by the Spanish when they arrived in Mexico and were often the star of large feasts. When the taco arrived in the United States, Americans changed it up by using hard shell tacos instead of flat tortillas or soft bread wrapping.

From Quiz Best Served Cold

Answer: Waldorf salad

The Waldorf salad was named after the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York in 1896. The original ingredient list was limited to the three I've mentioned in the question, but modern versions also include walnuts and grapes. However, they don't contain grapefruit (as in the recipe prepared in the TV series "Fawlty Towers"). Green Goddess salad (alternatively also known as Watergate salad, Pistachio Delight, Shut the Gate salad, Green Fluff or Green Stuff) is basically a mixture of pistachio pudding, whipped cream, pineapple and pecan nuts. Poire belle Hélène is a dessert made of vanilla ice cream, pears in sugar syrup, and a chocolate topping. Eton Mess is a dessert consisting of berries (usually strawberries), ice cream and meringue. The original recipe could replace the strawberries with bananas, but nowadays this is not done. True Eton scholars would say "this is not cricket".

From Quiz Dinner is Serval

Answer: Brining

Bobcat is another feline game meat which tends to cook like pork. Due to a rather active, carnivorous lifestyle, bobcats tend to get very muscly, so game hunters who catch them need to take extra steps to prepare the dish when cooking the meat. Brining is a smart option regardless of tough meat source as it allows meat to take in liquids and salt that it can hold during cooking. The other benefit is that brining helps remove blood from meat, leeching it out of the tinier capillaries to provide a cleaner flank. But bobcat also isn't a typical meat choice in its native land of North America. It's more valuable for its hide.

From Quiz Briskets and Biscuits

Answer: Clam

Though the word looks like gee-oh-duck, it's pronounced gooey-duck. It's the largest kind of clam, and it burrows into the seafloor. It's too big to serve to one person, so it's usually served sliced, often ceviche, or in sushi. In Japan, geoduck is called mirugai, or giant clam.

From Quiz El McBurger-san: The International Burger

Answer: Beef patty

In India cows are sacred so beef is off the menu. The Hindu diet does not expressly forbid other meat consumption but "ahimsa" - non-violence against all life forms including animals - is practised and most Hindus follow a vegetarian or lacto-vegetarian diet. With the Sikh religion, Sikhs can choose whether to adopt a meat diet or not but once they become Amritdhari (baptised) they are forbidden from eating Kutha (Muslim) or Halal, or Kosher meat and most choose a lacto-vegetarian food which is the food that is served in the Gurdwara (Sikh temple). Lentils are not consumed in high quantities in the west, but dahl, a term used in the Indian subcontinent for dried, split legumes(lentils, peas, and beans) can be cooked in many ways; if I mix a red lentil dahl with chickpea flour, I will get a nice firm patty, and served with a subtle but fiery curry sauce of madras curry cut with some cooling yogurt, this should make a fine burger (rotis or chapatis to replace the bun will be optional).

From Quiz National Dishes of the World

Answer: Falafel

The falafel is often a combination of fava beans and chickpeas that are ground together with flour as a binding agent and mixed with various spices including cumin and coriander. Some falafels are flattened into patties while others are formed into balls (similar in size to a meatball). Once formed, they are deep fried and often stuffed into pita bread and served with tahini.

From Quiz This is the Life

Answer: Haggis

A Burns supper celebrates the life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, typically on his birthday the 25th of January. Haggis, traditionally accompanied by tatties (mashed potato) and neeps (mashed swede or rutabaga), forms the main course of the meal. During the supper the haggis is normally brought into the room accompanied by bagpipe music and then Burns' poem 'Address to a Haggis' is recited. As to what a haggis is, Wikipedia provides two entries. One is for wild haggis (Haggis scoticus), which may or may not have one pair of legs shorter than the other. The other refers to a butcher's specialty involving sheep's pluck, oats and spices. Take your pick.

From Quiz The Overlooked Aubergine

Answer: Italy

The aubergine is shallow fried as a filling and then baked after adding layers of tomato sauce and cheese. The dish is believed to have originated in southern Italy with both Sicily and Campania claiming its creation.

From Quiz Why I Love Ramen

Answer: Lo mein

In Chinese, "lo mein" means "tossed noodles", and "chow mein" means "fried noodles". "Mian tiao" in Chinese simply translates to "noodles" in English. Soba is a Japanese buckwheat noodle, and really means any thin noodle in Japan.

From Quiz Hubby and Chubby go on a Foodie Vacation!

Answer: Big kettles of stew

Booyah is a thick soup/stew that requires several days and many cooks to prepare in huge "booyah kettles" meant to serve hundreds (or even thousands) of people. Thought to be of Belgium (Walloon) origin, it is typically seen in the Upper Midwestern States of US - Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. Made from beef, chicken, pork and whatever vegetables are available, seasonings depend on the cook(s) in charge of the shift. Chicken and Waffles is an interesting Southern dish - served together with maple syrup. (The couple admits that they don't understand the pairing - but many people adore this dish!) All-you-can-eat Pancake Feeds are usually found at church and Boy Scout fundraisers throughout the USA. Hot dog dinners followed with spraying kids with fire hoses is Chubby's invention - but what a better way to clean the ketchup off! Aside - True Story. The C/Hubbys lived in a town near St. Paul, Minnesota. Once, they drove past a fire station that had a yard sign advertising the annual "Booyah Night." Not natives of the area, they stopped to ask what Booyah was. The Fire Chief took them to the backyard cooking area and explained that the stew involved many chefs who would watch the big pot, stir, drink a beer then add one to the stew if needed. One chef shared that the secret to their Booyah was cigarette ash and then proceeded to flick his "butt" into the pot. This is the absolute truth!

From Quiz It's Beginning to Taste a Lot Like Christmas

Answer: Hansel and Gretel

A 'pfefferkuchenhaus', or gingerbread house, is made from thin slabs of gingerbread glued together with sugar paste, and decorated with icing (to represent snow, and to hold the other decorations in place) along with any of a wide variety of candy items. In its simplest form it has four walls and a gabled roof, but much more elaborate cakes can be seen. Sometimes soft gingerbread dough is molded into figures to make the house seem inhabited; sugar crystal windows can be included; in fact, the possibilities for creative decoration are virtually unlimited! The tradition of making gingerbread houses for Christmas originated in Germany around the time that the Brothers Grimm published 'Hansel and Gretel', a story in which two children discovered an edible house inhabited by a witch who used the house to lure unsuspecting children inside.

From Quiz Kilted Kangas Country Food Tour

Answer: A Bridie

This is a popular snack in Scotland, which is very fattening but delicious! (Submitted by scotsbluebell)

From Quiz Fire in My Belly

Answer: Thailand

Neua Pad Prik or Thai pepper steak is a simple dish of beef, garlic, shallots, green and red bell peppers, fish sauce, palm sugar and birds-eye Thai peppers. Like many Thai dishes, Neua Pad Prik can be spiced to the taste of the diner. Thai chilies or birds-eye peppers are a small red pepper with a distinct sweet flavor that hides the intense heat. Birds-eye chilies measure in the 75,000-100,000 Scoville unit range, making them not quite as hot as Habanero or Scotch bonnet peppers. All pepper heat is a matter of personal preference. However many commentators and hot food aficionados acknowledge that the Thai chili gives off an intense and lingering heat that often belies the chili's relatively pedestrian Scoville rating. Personally, a little Thai spice goes a long way to firing up my mouth and belly.

From Quiz "Speak Up Mr. Brown...You're Through" - Curry!

Answer: Pasanda

Pasanda, sometimes referred to as lamb badam pasanda because it contains almonds, is a very mild creamy dish and was a court dish of the Moghul emperors, being made with very thinly sliced lamb fillet. Like many curries, pasanda curries can be made with any meat usually cooked slowly in a sauce containing cream, tomatoes and cardamom... lovely!

From Quiz Go Ahead....Make My Lunch

Answer: 99%

In Japan approximately 99% of elementary (primary) school students and over 80% of middle or junior-high students receive the midday meal known as kyûshoku (school lunch). A typical school lunch will consist of milk to drink, rice, a protein (normally fish), a pickled salad, fruit and a soup with tofu and vegetables. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen; taste is important as well as good nutrition. In addition to eating Japanese students are expected to take turns serving the food to fellow classmates and to clean up the classroom after the meal.

From Quiz Food to Set Your Tastebuds on Fire

Answer: Chilli Bean Sauce/paste

Dou Ban Sauce is also called Doubanjiang by the people in SW China and it is a popular additive to Sichuan food dishes. Broad beans and chillies are the main ingredients of this very hot and spicy sauce which is often added to rice and noodles to make them more tasty. During the Ming dynasty, Chinese people brought broad beans into the Sichuan region but by the time they got there the beans were going off. They found that they could use the beans, chillies, salt and wheat flour to make a paste that could be added to meals to jazz them up a bit. The doubanjiang paste takes about a year to make and in some areas of China, two years. The end result is quite expensive due to the time it takes to make and the daily stirring of the hundred or so earthenware pots that sit in the hot sun in the fermenting area. This question was crafted by Phoenix Rising member Soozy_Woozy.

From Quiz Are You Going to Eat THAT?

Answer: codfish tongues and cheeks with deep fried pork rinds

Cod tongues and cheeks are exactly that: the tongue and cheeks of a large fish. Some diners complain about the gelatinous quality of cod tongues, while others like that part best, arguing that the texture is not unlike that of a fried oyster. Tongues and cheeks are usually deep fried and served with scrunchions, which are fatty bits of salty pork rind fried to a tasty crisp (like pork cracklings in the Southern United States).

From Quiz Here You Are Being Served

Answer: First course

Greek mezze is a mixed platter, served as a first course. Typical ingredients are tzatziki (basically yoghurt with cucumber) and taramasalata (in the original version a mousse of caviar with bread and olive oil, but nowadays it's hard to find the original version). By the way, I chose the name "first course" to make a clear statement. Various alternate names exist (such as appetizer in the USA and antipasto in Italy), and the most confusing is that in several continental European countries this course is known as an entrée while the Americans reserve the word entree for the main course.

From Quiz Source of the Sauce

Answer: Tabasco

Tabasco is manufactured solely by the family owned McIlhenny Company, on Avery Island, Louisiana. Edmund McIlhenny, originally from Maryland, moved to Avery Island in the mid 1860s, where he started to produce his pepper sauce in 1868 from the Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco peppers. Originally the sauce was produced by mashing the ripe red peppers, and mixing it with Avery Island salt, this paste was then let to sit and macerate for 30 days. Then he added white wine vinegar to the paste and let the mixture marinate for at least another 30 days, before it was bottled for sale. The bottles tops had sprinkler fitments, not allowing the sauce to pour out as he said that "his pepper sauce was concentrated and best used when sprinkled, not poured". The original Tabasco recipe has been handed down from generation to generation, with little changes, except now the sauce is macerated for three years in oak barrels.

From Quiz Vegetarian Awareness Moments

Answer: Baby mice

I like mice. These wee mice, only days old, are dropped live into the rice wine. A traditional health tonic in both China and Korea, it is said to taste like petrol. I think I'll stick to Tequila.

From Quiz Baked, Broiled or Fried?

Answer: Kimchi

There are many variations of the dish kimchi. It is made of vegetables with a different seasoning. A popular variety is baechu, where napa cabbage is used. Kimchi recipes differ by region and season. The original recipe used cabbage and beef stock. Later red chilli was introduced, when this ingredient came to Korea as introduced by Europeans. There is even a museum in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, dedicated to kimchi. You can learn about approximately 187 varieties there.

From Quiz The Offal Truth About Black Pudding

Answer: Herring

Rollmops are pickled herring fillets that are wrapped around various other foods such as pickles, onions, and olives. This is a popular treat usually eaten cold or occasionally on bread and can be bought already prepared in jars. They are very popular not only in Scandinavian countries, but also in such places as Brazil, Poland, and South Africa.

From Quiz You Double Dipped!

Answer: Taramosalata

Kibbeh is a dish that originates from Turkey and is generally made of bulgar, spices, and chopped meats, while fattoush is a Turkish salad made from garden vegetables and pita bread. An aioli is basically the garlic version of mayonnaise.

From Quiz You are what you eat....

Answer: English

There's some argument about the English national dish - Tikka Chicken curry seems to be taking over. And you can't deny how popular it is. But the traditional dish is still fish'n'chips! Newspaper is not generally used as a wrapper any more, even though modern inks are not toxic. Could it be that modern Brits are just more fastidious than their grandparents?

From Quiz A Menu of International Dishes!

Answer: Paella

There are many types of paella in Spain including "Paella Negra" which is cooked in squid ink, "Paella Valenciana" and "Paella Fideus" among others. Paella is also the name of the pan in which the traditional dish is cooked. Tortilla de Patatas, tapas, and cocido are also widely considered to be the national foods of Spain.

From Quiz The Bus Stops Here - World Food [6]

Answer: Cake

Ka'ak has many varieties, with ingredients from chickpeas to sweet dough. Ka'ak is then usually glazed and filled with nuts to give more of a dessert taste. Although Christians, Jews, and Muslims have different viewpoints about religion, they all agree about ka'ak, as all groups have their own varieties and taste of ka'ak.

From Quiz Man Cannot Live By Bread Alone

Answer: Fluffernutter

Other ingredients such as sultanas or a banana can be added to a Fluffernutter if you so desire.

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