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Part 1 Reading and Thinking
My Teacher
CULTURE AND CUISINE
The French author Jean Anthelme BrillatSavarin once wrote,“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more simply①,this means “You are what you eat.” Most people today relate this saying
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to healthy eating.However, BrillatSavarin was actually referring to our personality, character, and culture.
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Certainly,in many ways this seems to be true.Chinese cuisine is a case in point②.Prior to coming to China,my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America,with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes③. For example, America's most popular Chinese dish is General Tso's chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured④ with hot red peppers⑤. This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe⑥, however,so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese.On the other hand,it does tell us
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a lot about Americans.It tells us,for example, that Americans love bold⑦,simple flavours.And,since the dish was also invented recently, it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.
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①put more simply更简单地说
②a case in point明证;恰当的例证
③suit one's taste适应/满足某人的口味
④flavour vt.给(食物或饮料)调味,加味于 n.(食物或饮料的)味道;(某种)味道
have a sweet/strong flavour有甘甜/浓重的味道
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add/give flavour增味/调味
bring out the flavour带出味道
improve/enhance the flavour提味
be full of flavour美味十足
⑤pepper/'pepə(r)/n.甜椒;灯笼椒;胡椒粉
hot red peppers红辣椒
pepper vt. (在食物上)撒胡椒粉
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⑥recipe/'resəpi/n.烹饪法;食谱
[形近词]recipient n. 接受者
⑦bold/bəʊld/adj.大胆自信的;敢于冒险的
a bold move一个大胆的举动
bold n. 粗体;黑体
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