The food and cooking

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. English essayist (4)
  2. 4. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
  3. 6. Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings (7)
  4. 8. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  5. 10. Quacking water bird (4)
  6. 11. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)
  7. 12. Thin fried slices of potato eaten as a snack (5)

Down

  1. 2. Cattle that are reared for their meat (4)
  2. 3. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  3. 5. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  4. 7. Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud (plural) (7)
  5. 9. Meat from a domestic hog or pig (4)
  6. 13. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)