LLFE-A07 · Food Around the World — Describing Dishes in English
🌏 Food Around the World
⏱ 5 minutes · 📚 CELTA-informed · 🎯 Cambridge B1
📖 From the teacher’s desk: As a sommelier at Uccello and Popolo in Sydney, I paired wines with dishes from Italian to modern Australian cuisine. Here in La Réunion, the food is an extraordinary fusion — Créole, Indian, Chinese, French. My Bengali background adds yet another layer. Food is the most delicious cultural bridge there is, and describing dishes in English is an endlessly rich vocabulary topic.
🎯 By the end of this lesson, you can: describe a dish from your culture using taste, texture, and cooking method vocabulary.
🔥 Warm Up (1 min)
Think of your country’s most famous dish. Can you describe it in English in 10 words? Try now! 🍽️
📖 Learn It (2 min)
Describing food — key vocabulary:
sweet · salty · spicy · sour · bitter · savoury
crispy · creamy · chewy · tender · crunchy · smooth
grilled · fried · steamed · baked · raw · marinated
“Rougail saucisse is a traditional Créole dish from La Réunion. It’s a spicy, savoury stew made with smoked sausage, tomatoes, and chillies. The sausage is tender and the sauce is rich. It’s usually served with rice and lentils. It’s absolutely delicious — especially on a cold evening!”
✏️ Try It (2 min)
Describe a dish from YOUR culture using this structure:
- [Name] is a [type of dish] from [place].
- It’s [taste] and [taste], made with [main ingredients].
- The [main ingredient] is [texture/cooking method].
- It’s usually served with [accompaniment].
- I love it because…
🗝️ Answer Key
Personal response — check you included: taste adjective, texture adjective, cooking method, and a reason you enjoy it. Bonus if you used a passive verb like “is served” or “is made with.”
Cambridge CELTA course completed — 120 supervised teaching hours, 4 written assignments passed at the required standard.
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