Category food and wine quiz blog

Quiz Day

This week’s Thursday quiz will be followed by answers 24 hours from now so everyone has a chance to participate. Hope you are all having fun and getting in the festive spirit. Here is goes. 1. Hops in beer only come from the flower and leaves of the hop plant. Now what purpose do hops […]

6 More Quizzes to Go in 2009

Okay here is the 6th to last as I am not going to do one on New Year’s Eve. No way and we will all be working anyway , right? Speaking of waiters and bartenders of course and the kitchen brigade. 1. When you hear of Jews’s-ear fungus , what type of food are we […]

Thursday Quiz

Here you go for this week’s quiz. 1. An Americano cocktail and a Negroni cocktail both have sweet vermouth and campari in them. What liquor does the Negroni have that the Americano does not? 2. CrĂ©py is a light bodied white wine that can be made slightly sparkling coming from the slopes of the Haute […]

How Did You Do?

The answers to today’s quiz are the following. 1. Sbrinz comes from Switzerland. 2. Palombe is what a wood pigeon is called in Southwestern France. 3. Grape varietals are only found on French wines coming from the region of Alsace. 4. That orange – red fruit the size of a cherry is the rowanberry. 5. […]