FOOD

☆TOPIC: Food
Food is a natural thing for us and we can not live without it. To know what effect food gives us, why don't we learn about it from lots of view point.

☆Vocabulary:

*chef
-A professional cook, especially the most senior cook in a restaurant, hotel etc.

*buffet
-A meel at which people serve themselves from a table and them stand or sit somewhere else to eat: a buffet lunch/supper

*rare
-(of meat)cooked for only short time so that the inside is still red

*medium
-(of meat)cooked for longer time than rare, the inside is between rare and well-done

*well-done
-(of food, especially meat)cooked thoroughly or for a long time

*rice-bowl-dish
-consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice

*staple food
-food that forms the basis of a traditional diet

*dessert
-sweet food eaten at the end of a meal

*aperitif
-drink, usually one containing alcohol, that people sometimes have just before a meal

*Rice cooker
-machine that boil the rice


☆Reading :
Please check this article "Hygienic standards for school lunches beefed up", and answer the questions.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080721TDY02309.htm

***Questions***
1.What kind of food's problem happened in January?
2.Which country was the cause of this problem?
3.What did the former standards require to schools and school lunch centers?


☆Listening：

Please listen this movie and answer the questions.


***Questions***
1. What effect do staffs want to give audiences by pictures of dishes?
A: to make audiences angry
B: to make audiences hungry
C: to make audiences happy

2. What was the huge challenge for the stuffs to make this film?
3. How did stuffs make foods in the film as real dishes?


☆Writing :
Please go to this web page "Gourmet", and choose at least one article that you have interest. And write some comment for the article.

http://www.gourmet.com/recipes