As we mentioned a few days ago, The Jew & The Carrot is turning 2 years old this month!  In celebration, we’re calling all Jcarrot detectives to join in on our first-ever blog scavenger hunt!  Dig through The Jew & The Carrot’s archives to dig up tasty tidbits and blog lore (see questions below the jump), and send us what you find to be entered into the scavenger hunt raffle.

The winner will be rewarded handsomely…but to add to the mystery, we’re not revealing the prize just yet. (bwaa haa haa!)  For more chances to celebrate our terrible twos and win great prizes, enter into our “Bake Us a Birthday Cake” contest here.

The Jew & The Carrot Scavenger Hunt Questions

To be entered into the Jcarrot Scavenger Hunt raffle – answer 10 of the 15 questions (below) correctly.  All scavenger hunt entries should be sent by Friday, December 19 to editor @ jcarrot.org

Search tip: Plug key words from the questions into the “Search Box” on the top right corner of the site, and then read through the related posts to find the answers!

- Good luck! -

1. What are Sandor Katz’s two favorite fermented foods?

2. On our resource list of sustainable, kosher cheeses, which cheese travels furthest from Hazon’s headquarters in New York City?
3. Fill in the blank: In our interview with Michael Pollan, he suggests that no shopper leave home without ______.  (hint: it isn’t your eye for a bargain).

4. What job did kosher wine-maker Jeff Morgan leave to become a vintner?

5. Describe the explosive nectarines mentioned in our interview with Adam Gollner.

6. When customers asked organic delivery company, Able & Cole, to boycott all Israeli products, what was their response?

7. The best way to help out former Agriprocessors’ workers in Postville is to send funds to a Catholic church named for a saint.  Which one

8. When people at the Temple Israel Center (a synagogue in White Plains, New York) ask why their synagogue started a Tuv Ha’Aretz CSA, how does Rabbi Gordon Tucker respond?

9. What is the “key” to making the homemade ranch dressing served at last year’s Hazon Food Conference?

10. What four dishes did chef Gil Marks fry up at Hazon’s ’07 Food Conference?

11. Nati Passow got turned on to “slow food” while living in Israel. In his key-note speech at Hazon’s Food Conference, what did he call his “gateway drug” to the slow food lifestyle.

12. What vegetable family is rhubarb a part of?

13. What food item is pictured on the Shmethicist’s plate, and what color are her glasses?

14. According to Arthur Schwartz, what two foods would a martian landing in NYC today think were Jews’ favorites?

15. What does Rabbi Shmuel suggest you dip your Rosh Hashanah apples into?