Food A-Z Quiz Series - C

Answer: Chocolate

Chocolate is derived from the cacao plant. The cacao pod carried dozens of seeds, which are yet smaller pods. In these smaller pods is what is eaten. A long and tedious process is involved to make the chocolate we know today. The cacao seeds dry out in the sun, go through long processes, and cocoa powder is made. Cocoa butter, made from a completely different process, is added to cocoa powder to make chocolate. Cocoa butter is really what gives chocolate its sweet flavor. If there is more cocoa powder than cocoa butter, it will be more bitter, and dark chocolate is formed. If no cocoa powder is used at all, and just the cocoa butter is eaten, that is white chocolate.

Answer: Candy Corn

Candy Corn is known to be in the shape of a kernel. That is why it is named after corn. The candy has three colored stripes, the lower part being white, the middle being orange, and the tip of the "kernel" is yellow.

Answer: Guinea Pig

Cuy is the meat of a guinea pig. Guinea pigs are common pet rodents. They are similar to hamsters, but they do not bite as often and they have a tail. Cuy is described of as tasting like chicken (but then again, what ISN'T), but with much more protein.

Answer: Chimichanga

Chimichangas can be filled with almost anything. Chimichangas are served in Southwestern cuisine, Tex-Mex cuisine, and some parts of Mexico. Most chimichangas are filled with meat and cheese, and sometimes beans. However, they can include anything, like rice.

Answer: Sour cream

Although Creme fraiche is described as being similar to sour cream, it is much sweeter. Many eat it with strawberries, to make strawberries and cream. Creme fraiche more often replaces yoghurt in recipes than it does sour cream. Because it is more sweet than sour, it is much more preferable on fruit than it is on a taco!

Answer: Chamomile

Chamomile tea has chemicals in it that puts people to sleep. It probably doesn't work so well when it is chock full of honey and sugar, though. A famous American brand of tea is Celestial Seasonings, with dozens of different tea flavors. Chamomile is one of their most popular.

Answer: Champignon de Paris

The portobello, or champignon de Paris, is known as having a very large top. Common mushrooms, known as button mushrooms, have very tight caps that are also very small. The cap on the portobello is gigantic. It is big enough that the portobello replaces hamburger patties to make portobello burgers, and it can replace bread to make a mushroom sandwich.

Answer: Cacciatore

Chicken Chennai is a very spicy Indian dish. Chicken Cordon Bleu involves chicken, ham, and cheese. Chicken Ciev does not exist. Chicken Kiev, however, is a chicken filled with butter and herbs and baked. Chicken Cacciatore is an Italian dish, a chicken cooked with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs, and bell pepper.

Answer: Cloves

Choves and Clives do not exist, unless you are talking about Clive Cussler. Chives are an oniony herb. In fact, chives are the smallest of the onion family, similar to the larger scallion (or green onion), and the even larger leek. Cloves are spicy like cinnamon, not like cayenne.

They are spicy flower buds that are normally dry and ground. Sometimes, however, the entire clove is used in a recipe, although, most often, they are too bitter and spicy to eat. They do add an incredible flavor to a dish. Like cumin, cinnamon, and nutmeg, however, a little goes a long way.

It is extremely easy to "over-clove-ify" a dish. (Yes, I made that word up, but it makes sense, doesn't it?)

Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie

The chocolate chip cookie is the most popular cookie flavor in America. Ruth Wakefield was the first person to make the cookie, in 1934, but it was a complete accident. The chocolate chip cookie became one of the greatest marketed cookies of all time, and has today been manufactured more than any other flavor of cookie.

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