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1. Welcome. Please be seated. Would you care for a drink while the chef prepares your first course? Only one of the following names of alcoholic beverages is fictitious. Which one?
2. Ah. Here comes the waiter with your appetizer. Wait a minute, what's this? But this must be a mistake; it is a bowl of clay. On which of the following continents do the native inhabitants "not" practice geophagia?
3. This evening we will start with a salad, Yum Khai Mod Daeng, served in the Issan or North-Eastern region of Thailand. What ingredients make this salad unique?
4. Perhaps a green salad is more to your liking? The Inuit make a most interesting salad and use seal oil as a dressing. Where do you think they get the salad ingredients?
5. You did not find the salads to your taste, maybe you would prefer to try the soup du jour? This dish, menudo, is prepared with cattle and sheep organ meats, brains, head, tails and hooves. Which country does the soup with this blend of meat originate?
6. Possibly, monsieur, a simple serving of fish would be more to your liking? Surströmming is a Swedish dish where fresh fish are soaked for a day in a briny solution, packed in a barrel and set in the sun for another day then left in a storage shed until ripe. What type of fish is used for this delicacy?
7. Ah, but you did not even sample the fish, could it be that you like the flavour of red meat? Pacha is a dish created by the Iraqis, preparation involves skinning and broiling a portion of a lamb. Which part of the lamb is used?
8. Maybe, sir, you would find something from the dairy case a little more palatable? Casu marzu is a cheese from Sardinia in Italy. What does this product contain that puts it in a class of its own?
9. I trust you save a little space for dessert? The item I have chosen to leave you with a sweet taste in your mouth is Hasma. This Chinese confection includes ingredients such as Sago (a tapioca like starch), coconut juice and melon balls. It also incorporates one of the following items, which one?
10. Now that you have had your dessert would you like a cup of Kopi Luwak? During the curing of the beans which process, of the four listed below, gives this brew its unique taste?
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