The food delivery revolution

Question 1

virtual

Answer 1

created by computers to appear like the real thing.

When you go on the Taster website the restaurant names are virtual, all of them sold as ‘designed for delivery’ by Taster. What that means is all the menus, drawn up by serious chefs are designed to travel well,
All the restaurants on Taster are virtual – existing online and created by computers to appear like the real thing.

Question 2

travel well

Answer 2

be transported a long way without being damaged or its quality being spoiled.

What that means is all the menus, drawn up by serious chefs are designed to travel well, chosen so they’ll be warm, retain their texture and won’t look like a dog’s dinner when they come off the back of a bike.

Question 3

a dog’s dinner

Answer 3

an informal way to say something that looks messy or has been very badly done.

What that means is all the menus, drawn up by serious chefs are designed to travel well, chosen so they’ll be warm, retain their texture and won’t look like a dog’s dinner when they come off the back of a bike.

Question 4

shaper

Answer 4

something that has a strong influence on how a situation develops.

What that means is all the menus, drawn up by serious chefs are designed to travel well, chosen so they’ll be warm, retain their texture and won’t look like a dog’s dinner when they come off the back of a bike. So strangely the delivery, the bike, has become a shaper of the foods we eat.

Usually the takeaways are transported in a box on the back of a delivery cyclist who rushes them from the kitchen to the customer’s home. It’s a very modern way of eating, which Sheila thinks has become a shaper of the foods we eat

Question 5

underlying trend

Answer 5

general direction or development in how people behave which is real but not immediately obvious.

There is a strong underlying trend that maybe, in twenty, thirty years people won’t have kitchens – and it’s already happening in the US for example. I love cooking, it’s one of my passions but I’m rarely doing it - occasionally on Sundays and everything as it’s almost going to become a weekend hobby.

Question 6

hobby

Answer 6

activity someone does in their spare time for pleasure or relaxation.

I love cooking, it’s one of my passions but I’m rarely doing it - occasionally on Sundays and everything as it’s almost going to become a weekend hobby.

cooking at home has become an underlying trend – a general development in how people behave which is real but not immediately obvious.