Salad...It Ain't Just Lettuce Trivia Quiz

Answer: Indonesia

Asinan comes in both a vegetable and a fruit version, and can use a variety of ingredients, but the common factor is the fact that only the dressing is fresh. The vegetable version uses pickled ingredients served in a spicy-hot peanut sauce with vinegar, sprinkled with peanuts and deep fried crackers.

Answer: Caesar Salad

This classic salad is generally thought to have been invented by Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant living both in San Diego and also over the border in Tijuana. According to his daughter, the salad was improvised during an unexpected rush at his restaurant on 4th July, when his pantry was depleted.

It was introduced with great fanfare in New York by Gilmore's Steak House.

Answer: Coleslaw

There are so many different ways of preparing coleslaw that it would be foolish to give you a recipe here. Slaws from different countries variously include carrots, bacon, onions, apples, cheddar or even walnuts or raisins. The original Dutch recipe used a dressing of melted butter, vinegar and oil.
The main ingredient remains unchanged, however; finely shredded cabbage. In America, coleslaw is usually dressed with mayonnaise.

Answer: Crab Louie

Accounts vary, but some sources claim the founder of the Davenport Hotel in Washington, Louis Davenport, invented the recipe during his youth in San Francisco. The dish consists of a bed of iceberg lettuce, crab meat (usually Dungeness crab), hard boiled eggs, tomato and asparagus, served with a Louie dressing (mayonnaise with chili sauce are the main ingredients).

Answer: Panzanella

Panzanella calls for slightly stale bread, cubed, laced with olive oil, fresh ripe tomatoes and basil, sliced red onion, and an oil and vinegar dressing. The bread absorbs the juices and flavour from the tomatoes. Basil is the natural companion (both in the garden and on the plate) for tomatoes.
There are a number of recipes from around the world which use bread as the principal ingredient, including the Middle Eastern Fattoush, which uses Pita bread as its base.

Answer: Red ant salad

I tasted this salad while a guest of my friend's family on a trip to Thailand. We sat on their verandah floor, surrounded by a bewildering array of dishes. I returned to one dish which intrigued me with its tiny red and white round and oval balls gleaming among the green of coriander and mint. I had thought the red balls were pomegranate (or similar) seeds.

It wasn't till I had taken a second helping that my friend told me the dish contained both the eggs and the mature bodies of red ants. I thought about it for a moment, then decided that as I had enjoyed it first time around, I wasn't going to let Western sensibilities get in the way, and continued to eat.

It was in fact very tasty.

Answer: Shredded papaya

Som tam uses shredded unripe papaya as its base. It can contain brined crab, Asian plums, roasted peanut, beans and lime juice, varying with regional recipes.

Answer: Salade Nicoise

Salade Nicoise (or salad of Nice, if you prefer English) uses crunchy lettuce, slim green beans, boiled eggs, artichokes, tomatoes, anchovies (preferably preserved in salt for full flavour), and olives in a vinaigrette dressing. Served with crusty bread, it is a perfect lunch after your morning swim!

Answer: United States of America

Ambrosia is an American version of a fruit salad that usually contains pineapple, mandarin oranges, coconut, nuts, whipped cream and miniature marshmallows. I had to include Ancient Greece as one of the options, as ambrosia was the food of the Greek gods, conferring immortality on mortals who tasted it.

Answer: Waldorf salad

Created by Oscar Tschirky, the maitre d'hotel at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, the Waldorf salad is considered an all time classic. There are some acceptable modern spins on the original, but here are the ingredients for the classic version: Granny Smith (or similar) apples, lemon juice, celery, mayonnaise, walnuts (raisins are optional).

For fans of the TV series "Fawlty Towers", who will ever forget Basil's excuse for not providing a Waldorf salad to his American guest, "So sorry, but we're fresh out of Waldorfs!"?