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The Good Food Guide’s October Quiz
Published 02 October 2024

Taken in order, the first letters of each answer spell out the name of a much-lauded UK restaurant and its coastal location.

1) Which sesame seed paste is often to be found in baba ghanoush, hummus and halva?

2) What do the French call French beans?

3) Which food might you order Florentine, royale or Benedict?

4) White Sancerre AOC is made from which grape variety?

5) Which stackable, potato-based snacks are, geometrically speaking, hyperbolic paraboloids?

6) Nocellara and picholine are varieties of which fruit?

7) Arabica and which other species dominate the world's coffee production?

8) Which French city, one of the three spiritual homes of cassoulet, has a sausage named after it?

9) Which vegetable, finely minced, is an ingredient of sauce mignonette?

10) Pennyroyal, a herb traditionally used in the manufacture of black pudding, is a variety of which more common garden herb?

11) In Jamaica, which yellow-fleshed fruit is often cooked and served with salt fish?

12) The seaweed known as laver in Wales is called what in Japanese?

13) Which unpasteurised blue cheese was first made in Nottinghamshire in 2006?

14) Wat, tibs, fir-fir and kitfo are classic dishes in which African cuisine?

15) Sweet, sparkling, low-alcohol wine made from the moscato grape is a speciality of which town in Piedmont?

16) Which simple cocktail is a blend of vodka and orange juice?

17) Calvados is a spirit distilled from which fruit?

18) R. White's version of which popular drink was advertised on TV in the 1970s by Elvis Costello's father?

19) Which pungent Provençal paste is made from black olives, anchovies and capers?

20) Which town in Greater Manchester gives its name to a buttery, flaky cake filled with currants?

21) Which fruit is used in the sauce for peach Melba?