Cookbooks Trivia
This trivia game in honor of National Cookbook Month is a sure-fire recipe for fun.
15 questions · Published September 26, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What country produced the oldest cookbook still in print today, "On the Subject of Cooking," circa 900 AD?
Containing more than five hundred recipes, including many with Indian spices, "On the Subject of Cooking" was originally published by Apicius (under the title "De Re Coquinaria") in Italy around 900 AD.
- Multiple Choice
2. Whose "Favorite Recipes" are featured in Rosie Daley's cookbook "In the Kitchen with Rosie"?
Published in 1994, "In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes" contains lowfat and low-calorie recipes that helped Oprah Winfrey lose an estimated seventy pounds in the early 1990s.
- Multiple Choice
3. What cuisine did Mollie Katzen's 1977 "Moosewood Cookbook" help popularize?
Mollie Katzen was part of a collective that ran the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. In 1977, vegetarian cooking was still largely seen as a fringe cuisine, but Katzen's "Moosewood Cookbook" helped bring it into the mainstream. She followed up that book's success with 1982's "The Enchanted Broccoli Forest."
- Multiple Choice
4. What 2009 film utilizes the 1961 cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" as a major plot device?
"Julie & Julia" (2009) contrasts the life of chef Julia Child with modern New Yorker Julie Powell's attempt to make all 524 recipes in Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961) in a single year.
- Multiple Choice
5. What best-selling cookbook was originally published in 1896 as "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"?
FUN FACT
"The Fanny Farmer Cookbook" is noteworthy for changing the way recipes were written, standardizing level measurements in order to make the dishes easier for home cooks to replicate.
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