Test Your Eat-Q: Urban Agriculture
Test your agricultural knowledge with this Eat-Q quiz from the August/September 2011 issue of our member newsletter, JBF Notes. These terms crop up frequently when talking about urban farming. Can you match each word to its meaning?
1. Planter
2. Compost
3. Hydroponic
4. Potting Soil
5. Community garden
6. Locavore
7. Seedlings
8. Greenhouse
9. Apiary
10. Irrigation
A. Decomposed scraps that are very high in nutrients and can help fertilize soil in an urban garden.
B. A structure where plants are grown that traps heat indoors even during cold weather.
C. A person who values eating foods that come from within a certain radius of his or her location.
D. A place where beehives of honey bees are kept, also known as a bee yard.
E. A method of growing plants without soil, using
Test Your Eat-Q: JBF Outstanding Chefs and Their Signature Dishes
Bacon on a swing; baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces
Eat-Q: New Year's Traditions
Bubbly, oysters, caviar: these are the old standbys we love to eat as the clock ticks down to midnight. But what about revelers in other countries and time zones? We put together a little quiz to test how much you know about New Year's Eve food customs in other cultures. Give it a shot here.
Eat-Q: Halloween Tricks and Treats
Halloween brings out everyone's love of candy (some of our favorite chefs can't even settle on just one of the holiday's saccharine standards). Think you're a candy cognoscente? Take a crack at this bit of trivia:
According to Tootsie Roll Industries reports, what is the average number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
A. 100-200 B. 600-800 C. 3,000-4,000 D. Over 5,000To see if you picked the right range, click here—you can also check out the rest of our Halloween questions!
Eat-Q: School Lunch
Welcome to our second installment of school lunch Eat-Q! Yesterday we asked you to guess who appeared on the first lunchbox. For those of you who picked A, you're correct! The first metal lunchbox, produced by the Aladdin Company in 1950, featured a decal of the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy. The sales were so huge that by 1954, the company was able to switch to lithography instead of using decals for the rest of their lunchboxes. To read more about the history of lunchboxes, click here.
On to the next question! Check back tomorrow morning when we reveal the answer!
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Eat-Q: School Lunch
Fall is right around the corner, and you know what that means—the school year has arrived, and with it the joys and perils of school lunch. Whether you brown bagged it or carried your milk money, everyone remembers the feelings of anticipation (and sometime dread) associated with the cafeteria. Even if you still haven't recovered from the trauma of eating that unidentifiable mush the lunch lady plopped on your tray every day, we hope you enjoy the school lunch trivia we're featuring this week. The first question is below—make your best guess, then check back tomorrow morning for the answer and a new question!
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