On a typical bottle of French wine, what do the letters "A.O.C." stand for?

Cooking Trivia / November 25, 2024

Appellation D'origine Controlee. This certification is also granted to other French agricultural products, such as cheese and butter.

Who invented "Jell-O"?

Cooking Trivia / November 25, 2024

Pearle Wait. Although Pearle Wait created the fruit-flavored gelatin dessert, his wife, May, named it "Jell-O".

Which of these would you not typically find in an antipasti platter?

Cooking Trivia / November 24, 2024

Gelati. In Italian, "gelato" means "frozen".

What is the name of the rooster on boxes of Kellogg's "Corn Flakes"?

Cooking Trivia / November 24, 2024

Cornelius. In 1907, one of the ad campaigns for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to every woman who would wink at her grocer.

A "frappe" is a drink that always contains what ingredient?

Cooking Trivia / November 23, 2024

Crushed Ice. Starbucks re-popularized the "frappe" by introducing the "Frappuccino".

What vegetable is the base ingredient for gazpacho soup?

Cooking Trivia / November 23, 2024

Tomato. Gazpacho is a cold Spanish tomato-based soup.