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1. Pottery may be glazed. Windows may be glazed. And sometimes your eyes glaze over. What does it mean to glaze food?
2. Nicolas Cage played Captain Corelli in the 2001 film version of the 1993 novel "Corelli's Mandolin." A mandolin is a stringed instrument with frets, rather like a lute. In the kitchen, what is a mandoline?
3. You are shopping for pots and pans. You come across some shiny ones which are labeled 18/10. What does 18/10 mean in reference to metal pots and pans?
4. In the play "Witches" (ca. 1613) by Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), Hecate (a witch) says "I'll mar their sillabubs and frothy feastings under cows' bellies with the parish youths." What, pray tell, is a sillabub (or syllabub or sillibub, depending on who's doing the spelling)?
5. A seamstress bastes with large stitches to hold pieces of cloth together for final sewing. A boxer bastes another by thrashing him severely with blows to head and shoulders. How does a cook baste?
6. In Vietnam it is called nước mắm. In Thailand, it is called nam pla. In Burma, ngan bya yay. In Laos, nam pa. In Cambodia, teuk trei. What is it?
7. In U.S. and Canadian kitchens, what is a ricer?
8. 18th and 19th Spanish Roman Catholic priests in the Americas opposed eating chile peppers on the theory that they inspired bodily passions, calling them "hot as Hell's brimstone." Which tastes hotter: the Jalapeno or the Scotch Bonnet?
9. In 2008, Merriam Webster added the word "Prosecco" to its collegiate English dictionary. What is Prosecco?
10. An athlete can pull a muscle. A horse can pull a cart. A coach may pull a player from the game. Oars can be pulled. A car can pull to the side of the road. What does it mean to pull meat?
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