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Where Did Dinner Come From? Food Origins and Culinary Traditions

Tomatoes from the Americas, coffee from Ethiopia, chocolate from the Aztecs: trace famous foods back to their roots and discover traditions such as Japanese tea ceremonies, Spanish tapas and Christmas dinners around the world.

Questions
15
Difficulty
Hard
Time
~8min
Per question
30sec

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Food & Culinary Knowledge

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