FOOD AND DRINK QUIZ

Set by Christopher Howse

Win The World Encyclopaedia of Cocktails, published by Constable. Entries to Food and Drink Quiz, by 10 July. The editor's decision is final.

Fish course 1. Who spent 'All the afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's cabin, drinking of white wine and sugar and eating pickled oysters — where Captain Spalding told us the best Story that I ever heard: about a gentleman that per- suaded a country fellow to let him gut his oysters or else they would stink'?

2. What is the English name for the Span- ish percebe?

3. Who dined at Mr Townshend's on: `Stewed Eels and Onions, a Saddle of Mutton rosted, boiled Chicken and a Tongue, Veal-Cutlets, Beef-Stake Tarts in Turretts of Paste, Piggs Ears, &c in the middle a Stand of flowers on a painted Board. Second Course, a brace of fine Pheasants, a rosted Rabbit, Amulet, Macaroni, Spinage & Eggs, Tartlets &c. No kind of Desert whatever'?

4. Which fermented fish went into the Roman garum?

5. In the song called 'Haddocks' Eyes', the aged, aged man says, 'I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,/Or set limed twigs for —' what?

6. The Revd Dr Opimian said: 'Their names are single and simple. Perch, sole, cod, eel, carp, char, skate, tench, trout, brill, bream, pike, and many oth- ers, plain monosyllables: salmon, dory, turbot, gudgeon, lobster, whitebait, grayling, haddock, mullet, herring, oys- ter, sturgeon, flounder, turtle, plain disyllables: only two trisyllables worth naming, anchovy and mackerel; unless any one should be found to stand up for halibut, which, for my part I have excommunicated.' In which novel?

7. In The Alchemist who wants: `Our shrimps to swim again, as when they lived,/In a rare butter made of dol- phins' milk,/Whose cream does look like opals'?

8. Which good old New England city is 'the home of the bean and the cod'?

9. Which book of the Bible directs that: `All that have not fins and scales in the sea, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomi- nation unto you'?

10. Who, in Shakespeare, says: 'A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm'?

Books for cooks Who wrote the following cookery books? 1. The Modem Cook (dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, 1733) 2. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) 3. Complete System of Cooking (1759) 4. Physiologie de Goat (1825) 5. Modem Cooking (1845) 6. Book of Household Management (1859-60) 7. Guide Culinaire (1903) 8. Paper-Bag Cookery (1911) 9. French Provincial Cookery (1960) 10 English Food (1974)

011a podrida

1. Which Oxford College sang this carol: `Hey, hey, hey, hey, the borys hede is army'd gaye/The borys hede in hond I brynge'?

2. Name the novel from which this comes: `Near Lad Lane police station a small man in black fell in with us and tapping me often about the chest, talked to me earnestly on the subject of Rousseau, a member of the French nation. He was animated, his pale features striking in the starlight and voice going up and falling in the lilt of his argumentum. I did not understand his talk and was per- sonally unacquainted with him. But Kelly was taking in all he said, for he stood near him, his taller head inclined in an attitude of close attention. Kelly then made a low noise and opened his mouth and covered the small man from shoulder to knee with a coating of unpleasant buff-coloured puke. Many other things happened on that night now imperfectly recorded in my memo- ry but that incident is still very clear to me in my mind. Afterwards the small man was some distance from us in the lane, shaking his divested coat and rub- bing it along the wall. He is a little man that the name of Rousseau will always recall to me.'

3. Who wrote of whom: 'Against melan- choly he recommended constant occu- pation of mind, a great deal of exercise, moderation in eating and drinking, and especially to shun drinking at night. He said melancholy people were apt to fly 'I like the way the subtext draws one in.' to intemperance for relief, but that it sunk them much deeper in misery'?

4. Who was the 3rd-century author of The Deipnosophists?

5. Whose advice to young men included: `Resolve to free yourself from the slav- ery of the tea and coffee and other slop- kettle'?

6. Which present-day cookery writer recalls: 'In Benghazi, terrible quivering lumps of newly slain meat from the souk had to be marinated and left in the refrigerator for a week before you could stick a knife in it. One of my triumphs was a dish of sweetbreads, so I thought, but they turned out to be testicles, and very good they were'?

7. Which 17th-century artist, according to the Dictionary of National Biography: `Studied first in France with Francois Perrier, probably at the new academy in Paris, under whom he acquired some skill and robustness of style from copy- ing the antique. Unluckily he was too fond of the tavern to become a great painter, and his talents were dissipated in ignoble indulgences. Still he pro- duced some works which were not with- out merit. He resided for some time at Oxford, and painted an altarpiece for Magdalen College'?

8. Who wrote, in The Garden: 'Ripe apples drop about my head;/The luscious clus- ters of the vine/Upon my mouth do crush their wine;/The nectarine, and curious peach,/Into my hands them- selves do reach;/Stumbling on melons, as I pass,/Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass'?

9. Which professor of Latin wrote: 'The Grizzly bear is huge and wild;/He has devoured the infant child./The infant child is not aware/He has been eaten by the bear'?

10.Which fat man from Leicester visited London in 1806 and was described thus: `When sitting, he appears to be a stu- pendous mass of flesh. For his thighs are so covered by his belly that nothing but his knees are to be seen, while the flesh of his legs, which resemble pillows, project in such a manner as to nearly bury his feet'?

Minced words

Match the French terms to the meanings: (1) Mijoter (2) Mitonner (3) Faire revenir (4) Fouler (5) Emincer (6) Cuisson a blanc (7) Chapelure brune (8) Louche (9) Faire degorger (10) Mouvette (a) To give a preliminary cooking in fat till slightly coloured (b) To simmer (c) To slice thinly (d) Browned bread- crumbs (e) Soup ladle (f) To cook bread in soup (g) Cooking blind (h)Wooden spoon (i) To soak in water (j) To pound through a sieve.