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Food

Dishes, origins and the food myths you have probably repeated.

17 quizzes

• 🥢 Asian Cuisines — Crackling duck skin, soup hidden inside dumplings and wasabi that is not what it seems: grab your chopsticks and eat your way from Delhi to Tokyo.
• 🥖 Breads of the World — From pocket-puffing pitta to bread you can drink: tear off a piece of the world's oldest food and prove you know your crust from your crumb.
• 🍰 Cakes and Desserts — Ballerina-inspired meringues, upside-down tarts and ice cream that survives the oven: save room for pudding and prove you know your sweets.
• 🧀 Cheese of the World — From Alpine cellars to Norwegian kitchens, follow the curds across the map and find out whether your cheese knowledge is truly well aged.
• ☕ Coffee, Tea and Chocolate — Three plants run your mornings, your afternoons and your worst late-night decisions. How much do you really know about what is in the cup?
• 🍳 Cooking Techniques and Terms — Julienne, flambé, sous-vide, roux: can you talk like a chef, or does the kitchen jargon leave you stewing? Sharpen your knives and find out.
• 🍟 Fast Food History — Who used to sell milkshake mixers, which chain began as Pete's Super Submarines, and why did soldiers get the first drive-thru? Order up and find out.
• 🥐 Food Origins: True or False — Half of these tasty food stories are complete nonsense. Eight true-or-false claims about where your favourite dishes actually came from.
• 🍎 Fruits and Vegetables — From grapes that shrink into raisins to fruit so smelly it is banned on trains, fill your basket and see how ripe your produce knowledge is.
• 🍕 Italian Food — Pizza in Naples, ragù in Bologna and a salami that is secretly a pepper: pull up a chair at the Italian table and see how much you really know.
• 🥘 Portuguese and Spanish Food — Custard tarts from monks, hams fed on acorns and clams named after a poet: pull up a chair at the Iberian table and see how much you really know.
• 🍲 Soups and Stews of the World — Ladle your way from Andalusian gazpacho to Vietnamese pho and find out whether your soup knowledge is thin broth or a hearty stew.
• 🌿 Spices and Herbs — Bark, buds, berries and leaves: sniff your way through the spice rack and find out whether your palate is seasoned or still a little bland.
• 🌮 Street Food of the World — Grab a napkin and follow the smoke. From sizzling carts to midnight griddles, can you name what you are eating and where it came from?
• 🍬 Sweets and Candy — From Lübeck marzipan to Istanbul lokum and Chios mastic, unwrap the surprising stories behind the world's favourite sweets and candy.
• 🥕 Vitamins and Nutrition — From scurvy at sea to the iron in your blood, find out which foods carry which vitamins and how much you really know about nutrition.
• 🍜 World Cuisine — Twenty dishes, twenty passports. Follow the smell from Valencia to Hanoi and find out whether your palate has actually done any travelling.