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The Good Food Guide’s September food quiz
Published 04 September 2024

Taken in order, the first letters of each answer spell out the name of a venerable British restaurant and its chef/proprietor.

1) What savoury Greek spread, once made with grey mullet roe, is now usually made with smoked cod's roe, olive oil and lemon?

2) Which pungent root is known in French as raifort?

3) A baked pudding of apples topped with sponge: which Biblical character lends it her name?


4) Which batter cakes might you cook on an iron?


5) The Italian town of Saronno is the birthplace of which biscuits, made from apricot kernels, sugar and egg whites?


6) Which member of the allium family is a main component of the soup vichyssoise?


7) Which grape variety is responsible for both Barolo and Barbaresco?


8) What is the Japanese name for salted and dried "plums" (actually a kind of apricot)?


9) A classic Scottish dish made from ground beef and mashed potato, it is called "mince and..." what?


10) Which word can refer either to a mayonnaise-based sauce served with fish, or a dish of raw, chopped beef?


11) Carnaroli and vialone nano are two types of rice often used to make which Northern Italian speciality?


12) The French liqueur St-Germain is infused with which flower?


13) Which sweet German wine is made from frozen grapes?


14) Which purple spice, made from dried and powdered berries, is widely used as a sour flavouring in Middle Eastern cookery?


15) In France, a boucherie chevaline specialises in which meat?


16) Which spice, literally meaning "stinking resin", is known in India as hing?


17) The gap in a bottle between the cork and the wine is known as what?


18) Which English city's famous "Brown Ale" was first brewed in 1927?


19) Which meat is braised in red wine to make lièvre à la royale?


20) Specialities of which country's cuisine include colcannon, champ and boxty?


21) One of chef Massimo Bottura's signature dishes is called "The crunchy part of the..." what?


22) From what are "Pontefract cakes" made?


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