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The Joy of Cookbooks Trivia Quiz

Most of us have one, or several, cookbooks in the kitchen. Here's a quiz about them.

A multiple-choice quiz by ertrum. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
ertrum

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
347,118

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1915

Awards
Top 5% quiz!

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Question 1 of 10

1. Cookbooks have been with us for a very long time. The oldest known cookbook was written on clay tablets and dates from the 18th century BCE. Which culture left it for us? Hint

Chinese

Inca

Roman

Babylonian

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Question 2 of 10

2. This famous 19th century French aristocrat, painter, and alcoholic collaborated with Maurice Joyant to produce his "Art de Cuisine". Who was he? Hint

Antoine Watteau

Jacques Louis David

Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec

Edouard Manet

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who was the French "king of chefs and chef of kings" who published his "Guide Culinaire" in 1903, which is still in use today? Hint

Paul Bocuse

Frank Beard

August Escoffier

Wolfgang Puck

4. While she was living in France, after working for the OSS in the second world war, Julia Child attended which famous cooking school before collaborating with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle to create her famous cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"? Hint

French Culinary Institute

International Culinary Center

The Cordon Bleu

�cole Sup�rieure de Cuisine Fran�aise

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Question 5 of 10

5. When this woman wasn't touring as part of her and her husband's rock 'n' roll band, she was a cookbook writer and food impresario in her own right. She was an ardent vegetarian, once saying "If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian". Who was she? Hint

Judy Collins

Stevie Nicks

Linda McCartney

Joan Baez

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Question 6 of 10

6. Iraqi Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi wrote the oldest known Arabic cookbook for the Abbasid caliphs. In which century did he write the "Kitab al-Tabih", or "The Book of Dishes"? Hint

nineteenth

seventeenth

fifth

thirteenth

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was the title of Isabella Beeton's 1861 work, which included tips on fashion, child rearing, servants, and animal welfare as well as over 900 recipes? Hint

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

Victorian Cookery

Lizzie Beeton's Book

The Housewife's Companion

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose 1896 "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" has stayed in print for over a century, and is often referred to only by the author's name? Hint

Fannie Farmer

Susie Fishbein

Rose Elliot

Mary Lincoln

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Question 9 of 10

9. Apicius, a first century Roman, was so famous for his love of food that when a collection of recipes was gathered in the fourth or fifth century, it was attributed to him. What is a translation of this work, originally titled "De re coquinaria"?
Hint

In the Kitchen

On the Subject of Cooking

Caesar's Cookery

On Food

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Question 10 of 10

10. This cookbook, by Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, has become so familiar that its title was modified to become the title of a best selling book by Alex Comfort. What is this cookbook's title?

Answer: (Four Words - think of this quiz's title)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Cookbooks have been with us for a very long time. The oldest known cookbook was written on clay tablets and dates from the 18th century BCE. Which culture left it for us?

Answer: Babylonian

Babylonian tablets have been found dating from around 1750 BCE which contain recipes, making these the oldest known cookbooks.

2. This famous 19th century French aristocrat, painter, and alcoholic collaborated with Maurice Joyant to produce his "Art de Cuisine". Who was he?

Answer: Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec

Tolouse-Lautrec's cookbook was, of course, illustrated by the painter. It features, among more usual fare, "Grasshoppers Grilled in the Fashion of St. John the Baptist" and "Saint on the Grill".

3. Who was the French "king of chefs and chef of kings" who published his "Guide Culinaire" in 1903, which is still in use today?

Answer: August Escoffier

Escoffier was one of the most influential chefs and cookbook writers. He became famous first as the chef of the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo then at the Savoy Hotel in London. His cookbook, "Le Guide Culinaire" was written to educate chefs in training and collected many of the standard haute cuisine recipes of the time, and presented them in a clear, simplified, manner.

Answer: The Cordon Bleu

Julia Child's two volume "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" was written to provide American cooks with classic French recipes. The success of the books led to her television career, starting with the PBS series "The French Chef".

Answer: Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney wrote several cookbooks and had her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, Linda McCartney foods.

6. Iraqi Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi wrote the oldest known Arabic cookbook for the Abbasid caliphs. In which century did he write the "Kitab al-Tabih", or "The Book of Dishes"?

Answer: thirteenth

The only remaining manuscripts of this cookbook can be found in Turkey. It has been translated into English twice, first in 1939, then in 2006 and called "A Baghdad Cookery Book".

7. What was the title of Isabella Beeton's 1861 work, which included tips on fashion, child rearing, servants, and animal welfare as well as over 900 recipes?

Answer: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

Mrs. Beeton wrote much of her book as monthly columns for her husband's "The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine".

8. Whose 1896 "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" has stayed in print for over a century, and is often referred to only by the author's name?

Answer: Fannie Farmer

Fannie Farmer's cookbook was one of the first to use standard measures and to define what she meant by such common terms as "a spoonful". Her publisher, Little Brown, didn't think the book would do well, so they only printed 3,000 copies - at her expense - for the first run.

Answer: On the Subject of Cooking

Though it was written for an aristocratic Roman audience, and so includes ingredients like flamingo which are a bit unusual to modern tastes, the book's layout is quite modern. Recipes are divided into chapters by the type of the main ingredient; meats, fish, poultry, etc.

Answer: The Joy of Cooking

"The Joy of Cooking" was first published in 1931, and has gone through five editions since. Marion Rombauer Becker illustrated the original edition, and edited the later editions after her mother died in 1962.

Source: Author ertrum

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