Exam B2 - notes
USING ENGLISH
FOOD AND DRINK
What we eat can have serious consequences on our health.
Food can be:
-Healthy (good for us): salad, fish, fruit
-Unhealthy (bad for us): hamburger, chips
Apricot, Steak, Aubergine (melanzana), Burger, Courgette (zucchina), Curry, Ginger (zenzero), Fish
and chips, Prawns (gamberi).
The way we cook things can make them more or less healthy:
-With a lot of oil: high fat content
-Boil: Act of cooking food, like vegetables, in hot water, in high temperature like 100 degrees.
-Deep fry: when food is submerged in hot oil and cooked. —> these foods are greasy (unto).
-Steam: food is cooked using steam from water. Healthy way to cook.
-Grill: Act of placing food in direct contact with dry heats. It doesn’t use any oil or fat, common
method to cook meat.
-Roast: cooking something in the oven for a long time, popular way of cooking meat in the UK.
-Stew: meet and vegetables are cooked togheter in liquid for a very long period of time. Popular in
UK, were it’s cold and people need warm food.
-Bake: act of cooking bread, cake or biscuits in the oven
-Pan fry: also called shallow fry, shallow is the opposite of deep, it is cooking something in a small
amount of oil. When we fry an egg we are pan frying.
STEAK: it’s normally of cow, it is also of pork, lamb or chicken.
CURRY: Indian food, popular in the UK. All Indian food are referred there as “curry”, it doesn’t
indicate the spice.
APRICOT, AUBERGINE and GINGER: Popular ingredients in the UK, brought there from the colonies.
How do we describe the taste of food in english?
When we like something we can say:
-Delicious
-Yummy
-Delectable
-Flavoursome
-Mouth-watering
When we don’t like something we can say:
-Disgusting
-Bland
-Awful
-Yucky
-Vomit-inducing
Sweet is an adjective used for foods like chocolate, sugar, sweets and cakes
Savoury is used to described foods such as pizza, meat and crisps.
! SALTY AND SAVOURY ARE NOT THE SAME THING: salty refers to something too that has too much
salt, so it has a negative connotation.
Bitter is used to describe foods such as dark chocolate, coffee and citrus peel.
Smoky is used to describe baked or smoked salmon.
Spicy is used to describe foods like chilly, curry and certain sausages.
