Q 01/05

A trip to which ice cream chain inspired the salmon cornets Thomas Keller serves at The French Laundry?

A) Dairy Queen

B) Baskin-Robbins

C) Cold Stone Creamery

D) Häagen-Dazs

Answer · why

B) Baskin-Robbins

Baskin-Robbins sparked the idea for the cornet, a miniature cone filled with salmon tartare instead of ice cream. It sits among the playful small plat...

Q 02/05

Which actor did Thomas Keller teach to cook a fried-egg sandwich for the 2004 film Spanglish?

A) Ben Stiller

B) Matthew Perry

C) Adam Sandler

D) Jack Black

Answer · why

C) Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler learned the dish from Keller, who designed it as something a gifted bachelor cook might make for himself. It is a BLT with a fried egg ad...

Q 03/05

Thomas Keller, a consultant on Pixar's Ratatouille, has a voice cameo in the American version as which character?

A) A restaurant patron

B) A health inspector

C) A food critic

D) A rival chef

Answer · why

A) A restaurant patron

A restaurant patron is Keller's voice cameo in the film, whose producer interned in his French Laundry kitchen. Keller also devised the fanned, layere...

Q 04/05

The stone building that houses Thomas Keller's The French Laundry was originally built by a Scottish stonemason as what?

A) A saloon

B) A bakery

C) A stagecoach inn

D) A boarding house

Answer · why

A) A saloon

A saloon came first; after a local law banned alcohol sales near the veterans' home, the building became a French steam laundry in the 1920s, which ga...

Q 05/05

What was stolen from The French Laundry in December 2014 while the restaurant was closed for renovations?

A) Caviar

B) Truffles

C) Wine

D) Knives

Answer · why

C) Wine

Wine was the target: thieves took rare bottles, most of them Burgundy, from the cellar on Christmas Day. Most were later recovered in North Carolina.