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
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No, mine is on 30th January but a number of my friends are contestants tonight so I can't wait to watch it!
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.
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
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!
:)
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
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
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!
Ahhh Kavey,
Any hints on who won so I can go to Ladbrokes on the way to work!
I am recording and watching, just in case something goes wrong with the recording!
Its a good job you got that one right Kavey ! LOL
(Indian name for....)
Steve
Five spice Kavey? I was sure you would get that right, still a very hard quiz I thought. Well done.
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
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 ;)
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!
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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. ;?)