Food I Love — Vocabulary for Eating and Cooking
🍎 Go to your kitchen! Point at 5 foods and say their name in English. Can't find the word? That's your homework for the day!
Tag: food vocabulary
Writing a Menu: How to Describe Food in English
At Popolo in Sydney, I helped rewrite part of the menu. The chef's original line said: 'Pasta with tomato sauce and herbs.' I changed it to: 'House-made fettuccine, slow-cooked San Marzano tomato, fresh basil.' Same…
Kitchen Vocabulary: The Food Words Every Learner Needs
Growing up in Bangladesh, I helped my mother cook rice on a clay stove every evening. We called it chul. In Sydney, the first kitchen I worked in had six different types of pan and…
Taste in Words: Describing Wine Like a Sommelier
At Uccello in Sydney, I once described a Barossa Shiraz to a table of eight. I used three adjectives — smoky, full-bodied, long finish — and the table ordered a second bottle. Language sold the…
Coffee Talk: Vocabulary from Behind the Espresso Machine
My first week at a Sydney café, a customer asked for a 'flat white'. I nodded. Then I stared at the machine for a full minute with no idea what to do. The other barista…