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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink
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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink

    By Yucca Road Productions

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    So, really?

    You don't know:
    the difference between wine, brandy, and liqueur?
    which is better for you, health-wise—saturated or unsaturated fat?
    what are you eating if you bite into a Cranshaw or a Persian?

    No problem! We'll have you up and running, foodwise, in no time.

    So, how do we know all this stuff? Well, we were helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show when we realized we had accumulated enough material to help out almost anyone. A student, game show contestant, or the wannabe foodie who lives in all of us.

    KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink provides a cornucopia of cooking advice, food safety tips, mixed drink trivia, and nutrition knowledge. You'll find the answers to your food and drink questions in these pages.

    Why is a baker's dozen different from a regular dozen?
    What spice is made from the ground outer coating of nutmeg?
    How can you make scrambled eggs light and fluffy?
    What is the best district in the world for red wine?
    What fluffy dish takes its name from the French for "breath?"

    Did you answer all the questions correctly? No? Well, then...
    The KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Series compresses a great mountain of available information into easily digestible morsels. You'll find the books are patterned in an efficient question-and-answer mode, stressing simplicity, brevity, and clarity.

    You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little study guide provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...
    Blasted!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYucca Road Productions
    Release dateJun 10, 2020
    ISBN9781370932078
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    Yucca Road Productions

    Yucca Road Productions started as all great enterprises do... having a cup of coffee with friends at the kitchen table. One of our little gang of misfits had decided he was destined to appear on the Jeopardy! game show. The rest of us were foolhardy enough to volunteer our surprisingly diverse knowledge sets for the task of preparing him for said destiny.A couple years later, we had accumulated so much info, it was nuts. After deleting what we decided was "trivia" in the game show's dozen or so most-used categories, we figured we could teach anybody to do well on a game show. Or an exam. Or trivia night at the neighborhood pub. Oh, yes... we nailed that one.And so, the Knowledge Blaster! series was conceived and delivered!Then Terry Marsh wrote a couple novels and approached us about getting them published. We liked the books. So, after coercing him into buying bagels for everybody, we added him to our list of ne'er-do-wells.Then Leo Moss surprised us with a book of more-or-less poetry and a novel about a reluctant magic man. We added his works to the list, too. We had to. Moss is the only guy in the group who can spell without a dictionary (so we made him editor), and we just can't find anybody else who will work for the "prestige" of it. Just kidding, Leo.So, time passes, as is its habit. We're still at the kitchen table, wondering what might happen next. We hope it involves pizza, but you never know.

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      Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink - Yucca Road Productions

      Knowledge Blaster! Guide to

      Food and Drink

      By Yucca Road Productions

      Copyright 2020 Yucca Road Productions

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      work of this author.

      The Knowledge BLASTER! Series consists of books of general and academic interest, written with the specific intention of compressing a great mountain of available information into an easily digestible morsel.

      You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little book provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...

      Blasted!

      Yucca Road Productions

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      Contents

      Cereal and Grain of Truth

      Fruits and Vegetables: A Cornucopia of Nifty Facts

      Veggie Cooking Tips

      Herbs and Spice and Everything Nice

      A Dash of This, A Bushel of That

      The Almighty Egg

      Bread: Let’s Loaf a Bit

      Say Cheeses

      Gone Fishin’

      Taking the Mystery out of Meat

      Meat Cooking Tips

      Nutrition: Little Things Mean a Lot

      Protein

      Carbohydrates

      Fat and Cholesterol

      Vitamins and Minerals

      Saucy Tidbits to Relish

      Sweets

      Foods of the World

      Italian

      Southern

      Oriental

      French

      Mexican

      You Call It, What?

      Name That Cooking Method

      The Beverage Bar

      Coffee and Tea Break

      Beer for What Ales You

      Wines

      Liquor and Mixed Drinks

      Selected Bibliography

      Cereal and Grain of Truth

      What is known as the gold of the Great Plains?

      —Wheat.

      Henry David Thoreau called this the staff of life.

      —Bread.

      What caused the practice of giving a baker’s dozen, or thirteen rolls instead of twelve?

      —In the Middle Ages, severe punishment (including beheading, in England) was assigned to bakers who short-weighted bread. Taking no chances, the bakers became overly generous to ensure their health.

      The introduction of Graham Crackers in 1829 by Sylvester Graham marked the era of pre-packaged foods. What did Henry Perky begin marketing in 1893?

      —Shredded wheat.

      Cereals developed by this man made Battle Creek, Michigan, famous.

      —Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

      C.W. Post’s Postum Cereal Company, founded in 1897, was the parent company of

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