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New Food Quiz on BBC 2 Tonight

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On 02/01/2012 10:01am, Kavey wrote:

Hi Folk

A new food quiz airs on the BBC tonight, called A Question Of Taste.

It's a pilot so only 6 episodes, but I'm one of the contestants in the January 30th episode.

Do feel free to laugh at the humiliation of me on telly... I did manage not to mention bosoms this time!

Kavey

x

On 02/01/2012 02:01pm, Rajneesh wrote:

Great !!! I will watch it, are you in it tonight?

On 02/01/2012 04:01pm, Kavey wrote:

No, mine is on 30th January but a number of my friends are contestants tonight so I can't wait to watch it!

On 02/01/2012 04:01pm, Mamta wrote:

It is on record now, because John and grandma are coming to dinner and I won't be able to watch it. I will record the whole series.

On 02/01/2012 04:01pm, phil wrote:

Kavey, I will make a point of watching it when you're on! Alas, the picture and sound keep breaking up on the signal from our satellite dish here on a hilltop in the South of France. I'll get a friend in the UK to record it to a DVD disk, just to make sure I see it.

Phil

On 03/01/2012 09:01am, Kavey wrote:

Phil, I'm not sure it's going to be that exciting, I'm sure I'm gurning to my team mates throughout, but still, thanks for the support!

:)

On 04/01/2012 05:01pm, phil wrote:

Kavey: I saw the first one, and was congratulating myself, in front of my children, on all my right answers;

I'm sure you'll be fab!

Phil

On 29/01/2012 08:01pm, Winton wrote:

Just a reminder that our own foodie, Kavey, stars in 'A Question of Tase, tomorrow (Monday the 30th Jan.) at 7.30pm on BBC2.

I'm certainly looking forward to it!

Winton

On 29/01/2012 09:01pm, Kavey wrote:

I'm going out tomorrow night to meet a friend for dinner and a catch up so I won't even see it live!!! Shall watch it and cringe when I get home!

On 29/01/2012 09:01pm, Winton wrote:

Ahhh Kavey,

Any hints on who won so I can go to Ladbrokes on the way to work!

On 30/01/2012 12:01pm, Askcy wrote:

must remember to set the sky+

:-)

Steve

On 30/01/2012 02:01pm, Rajneesh wrote:

Will watch.

On 30/01/2012 04:01pm, Kavey wrote:

No hints, ha haaa!

On 30/01/2012 05:01pm, Sid wrote:

I've set the sky+ box to record it. :o)

On 30/01/2012 07:01pm, Mamta wrote:

I am recording and watching, just in case something goes wrong with the recording!

On 30/01/2012 07:01pm, Askcy wrote:

Its a good job you got that one right Kavey ! LOL

(Indian name for....)

Steve

On 30/01/2012 08:01pm, Mamta wrote:

Well done!

On 30/01/2012 08:01pm, wilsonz wrote:

Five spice Kavey? I was sure you would get that right, still a very hard quiz I thought. Well done.

On 30/01/2012 09:01pm, phil wrote:

Well done, Kavey and team!

I knew 13 of the answers, but some questions had me baffled.

Well done on the following, Kavita:

pea aubergines (never seen or heard of them)

pumpkin seeds (green? Not in the pumpkins I buy)

rhubarb

garlic chopper (what's the point of it, though?)

Bad luck on the Aga: I guessed 1950's

As for fruits vs vegetables: beats me! Cucumber is a veg, as far as I'm concerned. The idea is that, if it's got seeds in it, it's a fruit? Or not? Linnaeus has a lot to answer for!

Phil

On 30/01/2012 10:01pm, Ganders wrote:

I was surprised by how green those pumpkin seeds were too, although they're a very distinctive shape.

I was very smug at getting the Aga question right, although it was a total guess ;)

On 30/01/2012 11:01pm, Kavey wrote:

I knew star anise, cinnamon, szechuan peppers and cloves but thought it was ginger not fennel. I'd never have guessed fennel as has similar flavour profile to star anise, I thought!

I've come across pea aubergines before, not sure where but knew they're used in Thai food, recognised those.

Pumpkin seeds, I've come across pressed pumpkin seed oil before, which was green, to my surprise, hence guessed on that one.

The garlic roller I'd seen one before and had strong feeling it was garlic thing, and thought, just go for it, go in early! Ha!

On 30/01/2012 11:01pm, Winton wrote:

Many congratulations Kavey

You were very modest before not telling us you were Captain and won at double the other teams score! (and in a very glam dress!)

After you got that garlic chopper question right (a completely useless gadget, but I have seen them for sale) I knew you had won it so could relax.

Well done!

John x

On 30/01/2012 11:01pm, Kavey wrote:

I'm not sure I've ever been described as glam before!

:)

On 31/01/2012 05:01am, Mamta wrote:

Well, botanically speaking, anything with seeds is a fruit of that plant, generally. Something that develops from a fertilized flower is technically a fruit, that is my understanding. Vegetables are generally leaves, roots, stems, etc. But all know that many 'fruits' are eaten as vegetables and hence known as vegetables. I never think of things like cucumbers, pumpkins etc as fruits! it is very confusing I agree.

On 31/01/2012 07:01am, AskCy wrote:

and then there are bananas ! lol

Steve

On 31/01/2012 08:01am, Mamta wrote:

I always understood that the banana 'plant' is actually a collection of leaves, but the fruit is a fruit, because it is produced from fertilised flowers and so on. I was just looking on the web, now they call it a 'herb', I never knew that! Where is Lapis?

On 31/01/2012 09:01am, AskCy wrote:

The banana "tree" is a herbaceous plant, but current websites (ie wikipedia) are now saying that the banana itself is a fruit, it contains the seeds of the plant?

on that note, if a fruit has the seeds in it (tomato, cucumber, passion fruit, orange etc) what are grapes, berries etc ? Are they fruits because they have seeds in them, or are they berries ? what is a strawberry with its seeds on the outside ?.... :-)

Steve

On 31/01/2012 10:01am, Sid wrote:

I haven't watched it yet, but I don't think I need to now LOL!!!

I assumed that bananas we buy have been bred from wild plants so they are seedless. If you cut one down the centre lengthways you can see the markings where the seeds should be. Wild bananas have a lot of seeds in them.

Banana plantation in South Africa

On 31/01/2012 11:01am, Rajneesh wrote:

Well done Kavey and team, I think you should have got that chinese 5 spice and Darjeeling tea Qs.:)

Am not sure but banana stem is underground (rhizome) just like ginger, turmeric.

On 31/01/2012 11:01am, phil wrote:

I got Darjeeling wrong too.

I think I'll go on taking red and green peppers to be vegetables, even if it's botanically wrong. Same with aubergines.

Phil

On 31/01/2012 02:01pm, Lapis wrote:

enjoyed the show, well done K. alhough I was cooking roast pork at the time! And I'm amazed I got Welsh onions as being Japanese!

Pea aubergines I've bought in London and Barrow, and I would always try to use them in a Thai curry.

The ingredients in the Chinese five spice is a little confusing as it can have more than five. Others include ginger, cardamom and licorice.

As regards fruits (and drupes and berries) and veg. lets just keep it to the culinary terms, its confusing enough! Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit (drupe), wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. ;?)

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