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- Sight (vision) - Hearing (audition) - Chemical senses Smell (olfaction) Taste (gustation) - Body senses Somatosensation - Touch (taction/haptics) - Proprioception Balance (equilibrioception)
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- Sight (vision) - Hearing (audition) - Chemical senses Smell (olfaction) Taste (gustation) - Body senses Somatosensation - Touch (taction/haptics) - Proprioception Balance (equilibrioception)
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Street food
Street food
A food stall in Seoul, South Korea. Steamed corn, grilled chestnuts and tteok (white rice cake), dried persimmons, cuttlefish, squid, octopus and filefish.
Candied fruit for sale in streets of Tianjin, China
Street food in China: chuanr (roasted meat on skewers) of starfish, seahorse and scorpions.
Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink sold in a street or other public place, such as a market or fair, by a hawker or vendor, often from a portable stall.[1] While some street foods are regional, many are not, having spread beyond their region of origin. Most street foods are also classed as both finger food and fast food, and are cheaper on average than restaurant meals. According to a 2007 study from the Food and Agriculture Organization, 2.5 billion people eat street food every day.[2]
Today, people may purchase street food for a number of reasons, such as to obtain reasonably priced and flavorful food in a sociable setting, to experience ethnic cuisines and also for nostalgia.[3] Historically, in places such as ancient Rome, street food was purchased because the urban poor did not have kitchens in their homes.
History
Small fried fish were a street food in ancient Greece,[4] although Theophrastus held the custom of street food in low regard.[5] Evidence of a large number of street food vendors were discovered during the excavation of Pompeii.[6] Street food was widely utilized by poor urban residents of ancient Rome whose tenement homes did not have ovens or hearths,[7] with chickpea soup being one of the common meals,[8] along with bread and grain paste.[9] In ancient China, where street foods generally catered to the poor, wealthy residents would send servants to buy street foods and bring meals back for their masters to eat in their homes.[7]
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brain
(brān)
n. 1.
a. The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. It is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion.
b. A functionally similar portion of the invertebrate nervous system.
2.
a. Intellectual ability; intellect: an actor not known for his quick brain.
b. often brains Exceptional intellectual ability; intelligence: has brains and good looks.
c. Informal A highly intelligent person: We knew the new kid was a brain as soon as she started talking.
3. often brains The primary director or planner, as of an organization or movement.
4. The control center, as of a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft.
tr. v. brained, brain·ing, brains
To hit on the head or kill by hitting on the head.
Idioms:
beat (one’s) brains (out)
Informal To exert or expend great mental effort: She beat her brains out during the examination.
on the brain
Obsessively in mind: The coach has winning on the brain.
pick (someone’s) brain/brains
To explore another’s ideas through questioning.
rack (one’s) brain Informal
To think long and hard: I racked my brain for hours trying to recall her name.
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