Restaurants&food&cooking Flashcards
We met in a little eatery just off the main road.
Eatery: a restaurant
French cuisine
Our globalized world is giving us unique opportunities to share various International cuisines.
Cuisine: a style of cooking
Speciality dish
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In some parts of the world, sheep’s eyes are considered a great delicacy.
Delicacy: something especially rare or expensive that is good to eat.
You can tell from his empty unused kitchen that he tends to eat out a lot.
Eat out: to eat in a restaurant
We rarely dine out these days.
Dine out: |formal| to go to a restaurant to eat your evening meal:
We feasted on smoked salmon and champagne.
Feast on: to eat a lot of good food and enjoy it very much.
We stayed in a swanky hotel.
Swanky: very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people’s attention and admiration:
He takes her to some really posh restaurants.
Posh: (of places and things) expensive and of high quality.
Low-cost
Cheap
Lots of the posh restaurants are not as good as they are cracked up to be.
Not as good as it’s/they’re cracked up to be= not as good as people say
In my neighbourhood there are quite a few run of the mill eateries.
Run of the mill: average, typical
The swanky restaurants will set you back quite a lot of money.
Set sb back: cost sb
I love the simplicity of Italian food with only a few ingredients but of extraordinary quality.
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Nowadays we often hear about the importance of maintaining balanced and healthy diet.
Balanced and healthy diet: it means we need to think carefully about what we eat and prefer nutrient dense food.
Fiber contributes to keeping our digestive system healthy.
🌱 its found in cereals, fruits, vegetables.
Whole grains
Some examples of whole grains: corn, wild rice, and …
Eat the rainbow❤️
Its a simple way to remind us that we need to consume more varieties of vegetables of all colors.
Obestiy is currently among the biggest health problems in the world.
Obesity= excessive weight= overweight= adiposity
Children are becoming overweight and obese for a variety of reasons. The most common causes are poor dietary habits modeled at home, lack of physical activity, and unhealthy eating patterns.
Dietary habits can be very difficult to change.
Do you have any special dietary requirements?
Dietary: relating to your diet
Psychological disorders which obesity may trigger include depression, eating disorders, and low self-esteem.
Eating disorders 🤔
For decades processed food has been getting cheaper, while fruits and vegetables have been getting more expensive.
Processed food💫
Nowdays products are engineered to be cheap and last long on the shelf.
They are developed to be incredibly tasty so that we can never get enough.
Addictive nature of engineered food😞
Fat,oil, protein, fiberC sugr, salt, additives
Food contents
The taste is utterly ambrosial.
Her jam was ambrosial, syrupy with honeyed fruit, and scented with elderflower.
The shop was full of ambrosial smells.
Ambrosial: having a very pleasant taste or smell
A situation in which many people do not have enough food to eat.
Famine
Digest
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I have a sweet tooth
To have a sweet tooth : to love sugary foods.
That restaurant is famous for its Regional dishes
Regional dish: 🦋
Eat out
Dine out
Eat at home
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Scrumptious cakes
Scrumptious food
Scrumptious : really delicious
appetizing smells from the kitchen
Appetizing: smells make you want to eat
A revolting smell of rotting cabbage
Picking your nose is a revolting habit.
Revolting: extremely unpleasant
Fattening food
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wholesome food
good, wholesome family entertainment
He looks like a nice, wholesome young man.
Wholesome: good for you, and likely to improve your life either physically, morally, or emotionally
When I am in a hurry I wolf down some fat food.
Wolf down: eat very quickly
I can’t stand seafood. There is just something about it I’m not sure about.
Something about it: something strange or special
I love to sink my teeth into s juicy steak
Sink one’s teeth into: eat some speacial food
