Q 01/05

The word 'salad' ultimately derives from the Latin for what?

A) Green

B) Fresh

C) Mixed

D) Salted

Answer · why

D) Salted

Romans seasoned their vegetables with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings, so herba salata, salted herb, became salade in French and sallet in 14...

Q 02/05

Which writer first recorded the phrase 'salad days', meaning youthful inexperience, in 1606?

A) Ben Jonson

B) John Milton

C) William Shakespeare

D) Christopher Marlowe

Answer · why

C) William Shakespeare

Cleopatra uses it in Antony and Cleopatra about being 'green in judgment'. The term 'salad bar' did not appear until 1937, in American English.

Q 03/05

John Evelyn's 1699 Acetaria, often called the first book on salads, tried to get whom to eat fresh greens?

A) The French

B) The Dutch

C) The American colonists

D) The Britons

Answer · why

D) The Britons

He had little success. Its subtitle was A Discourse of Sallets, and it catalogued some 70 salad plants.

Q 04/05

In which city was the Caesar salad created in 1924?

A) Rome

B) San Diego

C) Tijuana

D) New Orleans

Answer · why

C) Tijuana

Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini ran his restaurant across the border to serve Americans dodging Prohibition. A Fourth of July rush had emptied his ki...

Q 05/05

Which lettuce is the traditional base of a Caesar salad?

A) Iceberg

B) Butterhead

C) Romaine

D) Oak leaf

Answer · why

C) Romaine

It is still tossed tableside at the original Tijuana restaurant. The anchovies many consider essential were not in Cardini's recipe; columnist Dorothy...