Cuisine Quizzes & Trivia

Bird's nest soup is a legitimate delicacy, and it is thought to be an aphrodisiac. This clear, sometimes light brownish dish is made from the dried saliva found in the nests of a bird called a swift. Swifts use their spit to coagulate the leaves, twi

The word cuisine is also the French word meaning kitchen. It is related to the Latin and Spanish word Cocina that also means kitchen. Cuisine also has the connotation of the way of cooking or style of cooking. It is not clear how far back this use of

Eating food outside of the normal palette of one’s locale is one of the easier ways of immersing oneself in a culture other than one’s own. Some foods that are particularly unusual involve the following. Lardo is an Italian dish consistin

One particularly difficult dish is consommé, a type of clear soup consisting of egg whites, ground meat, boullion, and tomatoes. The earliest types of this soup date to the Middle Ages. These early versions of the soup were forerunners to mode