100 Foodie Questions

These questions are meant to encourage longer answers. Please be sure to include the questions along with your answers. It’s okay to print out the list before answering, but handwritten answers are strongly encouraged (although not required).

1. Have you ever made your own granola?
2. Do you buy more than one kind of butter?
3. Honey: clover, buckwheat, wildflower, alfalfa, other, don't care?
4. Have you ever made cheese?
5. Do you ever add dried fruit to your pies?
6. Where do you go eat for a special meal?
7. Do you drink wine?
8. Do you prefer vegetables raw or cooked?
9. Do you watch any food TV?
10. Chinese? Thai? Japanese? Cambodian? Vietnamese? No preference?
11. Do you bake bread? Have you ever tried the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day recipe?
12. Have you ever made a recipe from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking?”
13. Did you try making rock candy? Any other kind of candy?
14. Discuss your thoughts and experiences about specialty salts.
15. How do you store your leftovers?
16. Where do you tend to get your new ideas for cooking at home?
17. How often do you eat out?
18. When you do eat out, what kind of place do you like?
19. Have you ever eaten on a train?
20. Custards: easy-peasy or scorched nightmares?
21. Have you ever made a souffle?
22. Do you can any foods?
23. Do you dehydrate any foods?
24. Have you ever brined meat?
25. Have you ever smoked meat?
26. Do you buy any food magazines?
27. Have you even been/eaten abroad?
28. What are your thoughts about eggs?
29. Describe a kitchen disaster.
30. Miracle Whip or real mayonnaise?
31. Does your grocery store carry a good selection of unusual produce?
32. Do you buy organic foods?
33. Do you buy local foods?
34. Do you shop at a farmers market?
35. Have you ever joined a CSA?
36. Do your vacation pictures ever include food?
37. Are you a radish eater? Have you ever cooked radishes or used the greens?
38. Rice: basmati, jasmine, sticky, sushi, long, arborio, brown, wild?
39. Do you make your own pasta?
40. Crème fraiche? Sour Cream? Crema?
41. Are store-bought pie crusts okay?
42. Ever made pasties?
43. What homemade foods freeze well?
44. Do you cook ahead?
45. What are your holiday food favorites?
46. Do you like, and have you ever prepared, wild game?
47. What’s your favorite berry?
48. Recommend a good wine for a newbie.
49. Have you ever eaten bugs (on purpose)?
50. Do you like liverworst?
51. Have you ever made sausage?
52. Do you like to try local specialities when you travel?
53. Ever made your own beer or wine or spirits?
54. What are your favorite vegetables?
55. Fruit crisps – with or without oatmeal?
56. Have you ever met a cheese you didn’t like?
57. Do you like coffee?
58. What pasta do you favor, and with what sauce?
59. Do you eat beets, and if so how do you like them prepared?
60. Have you ever eaten flowers?
61. Do you like to read cookbooks?
62. Is it a good idea to own a double-boiler?
63. Do you like to shop in foreign speciality grocery stores?
64. Does fancy dress enhance a special meal, or make it uncomfortable?
65. Are good knives important?
66. What is your favorite kitchen tool (feel free to list more than one)?
67. Have you ever tried kitchen scissors?
68. Do you write notes on your recipes? What type of thing?
69. What is your favorite family recipe?
70. Have you ever made yorkshire pudding?
71. Do you make any special cocktails or other beverages?
72. What is your secret for making a great apple pie?
73. What is the most difficult recipe you’ve ever prepared?
74. Have you ever asked to meet the restaurant chef?
75. Do you ever save up to splurge on an exceptional meal?
76. If you had $200 which you could only spend on food, what would you get?
77. Have you ever thrown a dinner party?
78. What is your favorite soup if you don’t have to make it yourself?
79. What is your favorite soup if you have to make it?
80. Is there a kind of cake that you like for special occassions?
81. Truffles – chocolate?
82. Truffles – fungus?
83. Weird additions to chocolate like chiles or tobacco or sea salt – intriguing or blasphemy?
84. Do you like flavored oils? If so, any particular kinds and how do you use them?
85. What kind of salad dressings do you prefer?
86. Have you ever had to worry about safely serving perishable foods (like mayonnaise)?
87. Are you particular about your popcorn?
88. Authentic Mexican food, or Americanized Mexican food?
89. Can you do fancy cake frosting work?
90. Share a helpful kitchen tip.
91. What kind of pretzels do you like?
92. What do you like to grill?
93. Do you like to try recipes which come printed on food packages?
94. What is the most important aspect of hospitality?
95. Have you tried the any of the little packets of sugar-free drink mixes?
96. What is the most overlooked bargain at the grocery store?
97. Do you have a computer in your kitchen?
98. What food would you rather buy than make?
99. Do you chew gum?
100. Please share a recipe.