FOODIE CRACKERS

1 Clockwise 2 George Orwell 3 Peking Duck, served in a Chinese restaurant 4 Ebenezer Blackadder 5 Apple 6 Tar 7 Porpoise 8 The March family in Little Women 9 George I 10 A mince pie

CHRISTMAS FOOD

1 Persimmon pudding 2 Poppy seed 3 Philippines 4 Lutefisk 5 Baby Jesus 6 Pain perdu 7 Thirteen, representing Jesus and the Apostles 8 Dresden 9 Denmark 10 Christ's bread

CHRISTMAS PAST

1 By fasting 2 Heart, brain, liver and entrails 3 Peacock 4 Roast beef 5 King John 6 Marzipan 7 General George Washington's 8 Rabbit pie 9 Queen Elizabeth I's, after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 10 Samuel Pepys

A LA CARTE

1 Before the meal 2 Cherries 3 Pecorino 4 French bean 5 Australia 6 Cumberland 7 Bread 8 There's no difference 9 Welsh Rabbit (or Rarebit) topped with a poached egg 10 Woolton Pie, named after the minister of food, Frederick Marquis, 1st Lord Woolton

FOOD IN FICTION

1 Lettuce 2 Madeleine 3 Chocolate frogs 4 Toad in The Wind in the Willows 5 Cucumber 6 Pickle factory 7 Five Quarters of the Orange 8 Gruel 9 Clam chowder 10 In the Night Kitchen

AS SEEN ON TV

1 Graham Kerr 2 Julia Child's 3 Gordon Ramsay 4 Dave Myers 5 Philip Harben 6 Ainsley Harriott 7 Rotherham 8 Armani 9 Antony Worrall Thompson 10 Swedish

OFF THE SHELF

1 Len Deighton 2 Nanette Newman 3 How to Eat 4 Auguste Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire 5 Julia Child's 6 Elizabeth David 7 Eliza Acton 8 Julian Barnes 9 Chatsworth – in The Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookery Book 10 Anthony Bourdain

KITCHEN KNOW-HOW

1 a) Boiling 2 By smoothing the mixture of finely minced meat or fish (or whatever) between two dessert spoons 3 Large metal spoon 4 By warming the whole fruit before squeezing it 5 Because it doesn't curdle when heated 6 Gently press the stalk end of the fruit; if it is ripe it will yield slightly 7 In a two-tier saucepan: the chocolate goes into the upper compartment, sitting over simmering water in the pan below 8 Lift its tail: it should be stiff 9 The vegetables are not immersed in water, so they retain more of their nutrients 10 Against the grain: the meat will look better and be more tender