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Unit 3 Food and Culture
Reading and Thinking
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Look at the theme picture and discuss the following questions.
(1) What impressed you most in the picture?
(2) When and where do you think this photo
was taken?
Hundreds of long tables are put together with hundreds of hot pots on them, winding their ways along the street like a dragon.
In an ethnic minority area during a festival.
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Look at the theme picture and discuss the following questions.
(3) What are the people doing?
The photo is of a 1,000-Person-Long Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade Village of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou. (贵州雷山千户苗寨的“千人长桌宴”) The Long-Table Banquet is popular in ethnic minority areas in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, etc.
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How do you understand the quote?
食物在许多不同的层面上,把人们聚集在一起。它是心灵和身体的养料,是真正的爱。
—吉亚达·德·劳伦蒂斯
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
— Giada De Laurentis
People show and receive love through food, and in that sense food feeds both the body and the heart. Besides, it binds us together.
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Can you name and describe some kinds of Chinese cuisine ?
Hunan (dry hot)
Sichuan (hot from chillies and from Sichuan peppercorns)
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Shandong (fresh and salty)
Anhui (fresh herbs, oily colourful)
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Fujian (umami taste, light)
Jiangsu (soft texture, a little sweet)
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Cantonese (mild and slightly sweet)
Zhejiang (fresh flavours, soft texture)
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There are at least eight different kinds of Chinese cuisines: Anhui, Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hunan, and Zhejiang.
In addition, there are many other local cuisines that are famous, such as Beijing Cuisine, Hubei Cuisine, Jiangxi Cuisine, and Shanghai Cuisine.
There are numerous cooking styles that are associated with ethnic minorities.
How many kinds of Chinese cuisines do you know?
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What, if anything, do these cuisines tell y