World Cuisines & Culinary Classics Trivia Word Search

This Italian coffee-flavored dessert layers mascarpone cheese with espresso-soaked ladyfingers.

This layered Italian pasta dish alternates sheets of pasta with sauce, cheese, and filling.

This vibrant green Italian sauce is traditionally made from basil, pine nuts, garlic, and olive oil.

This Korean side dish of fermented, spiced vegetables (often cabbage) is a national staple.

This Japanese dish of vinegared rice, often paired with raw fish, takes its name from the rice itself.

This classic British takeaway meal pairs battered, fried fish with thick-cut potatoes: Fish and '_ _ _ _ _.'

This Roman pasta dish combines egg, hard cheese, and cured pork, with no cream in the traditional recipe.

This broad category of spiced, sauce-based dishes is central to Indian and South Asian cuisine.

This chewy Japanese rice cake, often filled with sweet bean paste, is a traditional treat.

This German sausage, often grilled and served with mustard, comes in many regional varieties.

This Polish dumpling, filled with potato, cheese, or fruit, is a beloved comfort food.

This famously fiery-tempered Scottish celebrity chef hosts Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef; his first name is Gordon '_ _ _ _ _ _.'

This Italian starter course, often featuring cured meats, cheeses, and marinated vegetables, precedes the pasta course.

This amber spirit, distilled from fermented grain and aged in wooden casks, has famous Scottish and Irish traditions.

This common Indian spice blend, its name meaning "warm spices," is written Garam '_ _ _ _ _ _.'

This hard, aged Italian cheese is a staple grated topping for pasta dishes.

This flatbread dish topped with tomato, cheese, and toppings originated in Naples, Italy.

This American sausage sandwich, a ballpark staple, is served in a long bun.

This British comfort dish tops mashed potato over a layer of minced meat: Shepherd's '_ _ _.'

This popular English cheese takes its name from the village where it was first made.

The iconic American ground-beef-patty sandwich takes its name from this German port city.

This espresso drink, mostly steamed milk with a shot of espresso, takes its name from the Italian word for "milk."

This thin French pancake can be filled sweet or savory, and is cooked on a flat griddle.

This smoky Middle Eastern dip is made from roasted eggplant, tahini, and lemon juice: Baba '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

This concentrated, strong Italian coffee shot forms the base of many other coffee drinks.

This Spanish saffron-rice dish, often loaded with seafood, is a specialty of the Valencia region.

This semi-hard Dutch cheese, named after a city, is one of the world's most popular cheeses.

Thinly sliced raw fish served without rice, distinct from sushi, is called this in Japan.

This German and Austrian dish features a thin, breaded, pan-fried cutlet of meat.

This creamy Middle Eastern dip is made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, and lemon juice.

This slow-cooking method, popular across the American South, involves smoking meat over low heat.

This Japanese alcoholic beverage, brewed from fermented rice, is often served warm or chilled.

This tropical fruit, whose spiky exterior hides a custard-like interior, is banned from many Southeast Asian hotels due to its powerful smell.

This soft, pillowy Indian flatbread is traditionally baked in a tandoor oven.

Paella is a specialty of this eastern Spanish region.

This bright yellow spice, a relative of ginger, is prized both as a flavoring and for its curcumin compound.

This delicate French almond meringue cookie is often sandwiched with buttercream or ganache.

This creamy New England soup, often made with shellfish and potatoes, is named Clam '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

A British-popularized Indian-inspired dish, often called the UK's adopted national dish, is Chicken '_ _ _ _ _' Masala.

This complex Mexican sauce can be made with dozens of ingredients, including, in some varieties, chocolate.

This tangy, sweet tomato-based condiment, ubiquitous on American tables, has surprisingly murky Asian-sauce origins.

This Japanese noodle soup dish, served in a savory broth, became a global comfort food.

This dense, chewy, boiled-then-baked bread ring is closely associated with Jewish cuisine and New York City.

This Japanese cooking technique coats seafood or vegetables in a light batter and deep-fries them.

Pizza as we know it today originated in this southern Italian city.

This influential American chef and TV personality popularized French cooking with her 1961 book Mastering the Art of French Cooking; her first name is Julia '_ _ _ _ _.'

This Italian frozen dessert is denser and less airy than American-style ice cream.

This intensely spicy Japanese green condiment is traditionally paired with sushi and sashimi.

This flat, round breakfast food is typically stacked and topped with syrup.

This flaky, buttery French pastry, shaped in a crescent, is a breakfast staple — though some credit its origins to Austria.

This North African dish of tiny steamed semolina grains is often served beneath stews.

This twisted, salted snack bread, often sold soft and warm, has German origins.

This Swiss dish of melted cheese, eaten by dipping bread on long forks, is often mistakenly assumed to be French.

This French custard dessert has a hard caramelized sugar crust on top: Crème '_ _ _ _ _ _.'

This hearty Louisiana Creole stew typically features okra, the "holy trinity" of vegetables, and seafood or sausage.

This Mexican spirit is distilled specifically from blue agave plants near a namesake town.

This caramel-topped custard dessert is popular across Spain and Latin America.

This meringue-based dessert, topped with cream and fruit, is claimed by both Australia and New Zealand.

This Middle Eastern dish of fried chickpea or fava bean balls is often served in pita bread.

This Hungarian stew of meat and vegetables is heavily flavored with paprika.

This spongy, slightly sour Ethiopian flatbread doubles as both plate and utensil.

This savory French tart, often filled with eggs, cream, and bacon, shares its name with a phrase meaning "real men don't eat it."

This iconic American sandwich of a ground beef patty on a bun takes its name from a German port city.

This fragrant spice pod, common in Indian and Middle Eastern cooking, is one of the world's priciest by weight after saffron and vanilla.

This aromatic spice, the seed of a tropical evergreen tree, was once so valuable that European powers fought wars over its source islands.

This traditional Scottish dish is a savory pudding made from sheep's offal, oatmeal, and spices.

This warm, sweet spice comes from the dried inner bark of a tropical tree.

This creamy Italian rice dish is slowly cooked with broth, often flavored with mushrooms or saffron.

This Spanish and Latin American fried-dough snack is often dusted with sugar and dipped in chocolate.

This popular hot sauce brand takes its name from a coastal town in Thailand.

This refreshing Cuban cocktail combines white rum, lime, mint, sugar, and soda water.

This Mexican dish steams corn dough and filling inside a corn husk or banana leaf wrapper.

This Latin American dish "cooks" raw fish using citrus juice instead of heat.

This Louisiana rice dish, packed with meat and vegetables, has French and Spanish culinary roots.

This Korean dish of thin, marinated, grilled beef is a beloved barbecue specialty.

This creamy Mexican avocado-based dip is a party staple worldwide.

This espresso-based drink, topped with steamed milk foam, was named for its brownish color resembling the robes of these Italian friars.

This Latin American stuffed pastry, baked or fried, can be filled with meat, cheese, or fruit.

This staple Italian dish comes in countless shapes, from spaghetti to penne.

This Moroccan dish, slow-cooked in a distinctively shaped conical pot of the same name, is a savory stew.

This flaky, layered Austrian pastry can be filled with apples, cherries, or cheese.

This Mexican sauce, often made from tomatoes, onions, and chilies, means "sauce" in Spanish.

This French sparkling wine can only officially bear that name if produced in a specific region of France.

This Mexican dish wraps fillings inside a folded corn or flour tortilla.

This Canadian dish layers french fries with cheese curds and gravy, originating in Quebec.

The savory Japanese stock made from kelp and dried bonito flakes, forming the base of miso soup, is called this.

This grid-patterned breakfast food, with Belgian origins, is crisped in a special iron.

This Indian cooking style uses a cylindrical clay oven to achieve smoky, charred flavors.

This popular Southeast Asian stir-fried noodle dish, a national dish of its home country, is named Pad '_ _ _ _.'

This tangy condiment, made from ground seeds of a pungent plant, ranges from mild yellow to sharp Dijon varieties.

This soft, bloomy-rind French cheese is often served warm and gooey.

This ground red pepper spice, common in Hungarian cooking, ranges from sweet to smoky to hot.

This Middle Eastern and Turkish dessert layers phyllo dough, nuts, and honey syrup.

This cold Spanish soup is made primarily from raw blended tomatoes, peppers, and cucumber.

This spice, harvested from crocus flower stigmas by hand, is the world's most expensive by weight.