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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the disadvantage of cooking vegetables?

2. What part of the egg is the most nutritious?

3. Why does the author think one should grill thin meat?

4. What does the author think meat is leaner and younger than it has been in the past?

5. What is the disadvantage of canned meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How should one cook poached eggs?

2. How is an egg formed?

3. Why is fruit so healthy?

4. What nutrients does an egg yolk contain?

5. Why is propionibacteria important in the cheesemaking process?

6. Why are fish healthy?

7. How has McGee changed the second edition of the book?

8. Why are tomatoes used as a vegetable?

9. What are the current methods of preserving meat?

10. Why is Louis Pasteur important to the dairy industry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are fish seen as essential to our diets? What are the health risks surrounding fish? How should one prepare different fish?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following foods in the book and examine why it is important to our diets.

1. Milk.

2. Meat.

3. Fish.

4. Salt.

5. Vegetables.

6. Fruit.

Essay Topic 3

What are the concerns about the chicken egg industry? How have governments tried to combat these concerns?

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