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Food & Drink Quiz: Where might you be enjoying a Fat Rascal?

Plus: ‘Keeving’ is a technique used in the making of…?

Mon May 23 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: If you were enjoying unagi, what would you be eating?

Plus: What kind of cuisine did the late Marcella Hazan specialise in?

Mon May 16 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is the alcohol in a Horse’s Neck cocktail?

Plus: Which TV chef’s autobiography, My Life in France, was released posthumously?

Mon Apr 04 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is the herbal liquor popular around the Alps?

Plus: What type of seafood is used in the Canadian dish fish and brewis?

Mon Mar 28 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Where was Kronenbourg 1664 first brewed?

Plus: What is the main ingredient in the French pudding teurgoule?

Mon Mar 21 2022 - 06:00

The Irish Food & Drink Quiz: A 3-in-1 takeaway is rice, chips and…?

Plus: When is the yearly Galway International Oyster Festival held?

Mon Mar 14 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Where might you be served Buddha’s Delight?

Plus: You are Danish, 25 and single. What might you get covered in on your birthday?

Mon Mar 07 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What’s that poking through the crust of a stargazy pie?

Also: Which Dublin restaurant has been awarded 2 Michelins in the ’22 guide?

Mon Feb 21 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is fermented in the Japanese dish Katsuobushi?

Plus: Where in the world would you likely be offered the liqueur Vana Tallinn?

Tue Feb 15 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Where does Mayo woman Róisín Curley make her wine?

Plus: Who wrote the book At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking?

Mon Feb 07 2022 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What plant goes into the making of tequila?

Plus: Châteauneuf-du-Pape is made in which French wine region?

Mon Jan 31 2022 - 06:00

The Big Food & Drink Quiz 2021: Answer 50 questions for a chance to win some tasty prizes

Test your knowledge of all things gastronomic in a special edition of our Food Quiz

Mon Nov 29 2021 - 06:10

Food & Drink Quiz: What is the main ingredient in a Lebanese malfouf salad?

Plus: What is the meat usually used in the Mexican dish carnitas?

Mon Nov 15 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What were Snickers bars before they were Snickers?

Plus: Which movie star has written a book called Taste: My Life Through Food?

Mon Nov 08 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What dish is named after a famous classical composer?

Plus: Who wrote the highly influential A Book of Mediterranean Food?

Mon Nov 01 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: A stinger cocktail consists of cognac and…?

Plus: Edmund McIlhenny began making what product in the 19th century?

Mon Oct 11 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: ‘Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’ has what main ingredient?

Plus: Which British chef wrote the influential cookbook Nose to Tail Eating?

Mon Oct 04 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What’s that spirit in a Dark’n’Stormy cocktail?

Plus: Pick out the main ingredient in an English chorley cake

Mon Sept 27 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is the main ingredient in an Iranian Kuku?

Plus: Marcella Hazan was well known for her cookery books on which cuisine?

Mon Sept 13 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What cuisine is Diana Kennedy an influential expert at?

Plus: Spot the ingredient you would surely leave out of a Planter’s Punch cocktail

Mon Sept 06 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: ‘Glorified Rice’ would never contain what?

Plus: What is the French province of Bresse famous for producing?

Mon Aug 30 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Who is the music superstar with a winery in Tuscany?

Plus: In addition to pasta, what are the two ingredients in Roman dish cacio e pepe?

Mon Aug 09 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: On which continent might you eat Chow-Chow?

Plus: Chef Daniel Humm is in charge of which top Big Apple restaurant?

Mon Aug 02 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What do chefs call setting up the kitchen before cooking?

Plus: Which chef was the subject of the 1999 British series Boiling Point?

Mon Jul 26 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What goes in dauphinois? Or in the Korean wine Makgeolli?

Plus, Iranian salad, Turkish sweets, French and London chefs and a Spanish market

Mon Jul 19 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Stellenbosch is a wine region in which country?

Plus: Rappie pie, cheese from Belgium and the Indian cake bebinca

Mon Jul 12 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is that gin-like drink popular in the Netherlands?

Plus: Italian gourmets on the BBC, finding jambalaya, Chile’s most-planted grape

Mon Jul 05 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: San Marzano is a variety of what kind of fruit?

Plus: Saturday Kitchen’s host, the essentials in chorizo, Slivovitz and Kladdkaka

Mon Jun 28 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is the meat in classic Norwegian dish Fårikål?

Plus: Basque Country cheese, the fruit in a Perry and the main ingredient in aioli

Mon Jun 21 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Floyd on Fish marked which celebrity chef’s TV intro?

Plus: Italian cake and French sauce, Wachau wine, keep away from the kedgeree

Mon Jun 14 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What is a no-no in Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce?

Plus: Hoppin’ John’s home, a Roca-run restaurant, the BBC’s original Naked Chef

Mon Jun 07 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: Who is the new co-owner of Dublin’s Chapter One?

Plus: Chinese spirit, Scottish smokies, Malaysian cake, Burmese fermented tea

Mon May 31 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What vegetable is Louth’s Drummond House known for?

Plus: Italy’s name for Grauburgunder and French Provincial’s cooking master

Mon May 24 2021 - 06:00

Food & Drink Quiz: What does ‘Brut’ signify on a bottle of champagne?

Plus: Cooleeney Cheese county, the number of small treats, Vimto’s country of origin

Mon May 17 2021 - 06:00