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Unit 3 Food and Culture
Do you know these dishes
What is your favourite food
pancake rolls stuffed with Chinese green onions
Guangdong Dim Sum 广东点心
hot pot火锅
boiled dumplings served with vinegar 蘸醋的水饺
Snail Rice Noodle 螺蛳粉
How many kinds of Chinese cuisines in China And why are there so many cuisines
Different regions
Different weather conditions
Different cultures
The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more simply, this means “You are what you eat.” Most people to day relate this saying to healthy eating. However, Brillat-savarin was actually referring to our personality, character, and culture.
Para1
What does Brillat-Savarin mean by saying "You are what you eat"
He thinks that the food we eat reflects our
personality, character and culture.
Main idea: You are what you eat.
Para2
Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes. For example, America's most popular Chinese dish is General Tso's chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, favoured with hot red peppers. This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe, however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese. On the other hand, it does tell us a lot about Americans. It tells us, for example, that Americans love bold, simple favors. And since the dish was also invented recently, it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.
Main idea: the first experience with _______________in America
Chinese cuisine
Task:Read Para.2 and answer the following questions.
3. What can the dish tell us about Americans
1. What is the most popular Chinese food in America
General Tso’s Chicken.
2. Is it an authentic(真正的) Chinese food
No, it had been changed to suit ___________ tastes.
It tells us that Americans love bold(浓烈的,英勇的), simple flavours and are not afraid to try new foods.
American
Careful Reading
Para.2
Place kind of Chinese food Typical dish Place or culture
America Chinese food changed to suit American tastes General Tso's chicken Americans love bold, simple flavours and are not afraid to try new food.
Para3
Later, I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by coming to China. When my family and I had just arrived in China, we went looking for a good place to eat in Beijing. A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend, and finally, we found it. Tired, hungry, and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order, so the chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an entirely new taste: Sichuan peppercorns. The food was wonderful and different, but what was even more important was the friendship offered us.
Main idea: the experience with ______________in Beijing
Sichuan cuisine
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing People there offered them______________
Chinese food changed to suit American taste
General Tso's chicken
Americans love bold, simple flavours and are not afraid to try new food.
Sichuan cuisine
dishes with Sichuan_________
good friendship
peppercorns
Para4
We soon moved to Shandong Province in the eastern part of North China. My favourite dish there was boiled dumplings served with vinegar. I observed that family is important to the people there. It has become a favourite traditional dish of the people in North China, where making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone—from the youngest to the oldest—joining in to help. Later, I learnt that the most famous food in Shandong is pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions.
Main idea: the experience with _____________________
Shandong cuisine in Shandong
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing
Shandong
Chinese food changed to suit American taste
General Tso's chicken
Americans love bold, simple flavours and are not afraid to try new food.
Sichuan cuisine
dishes with Sichuan peppercorns
People there offered them good friendship
boiled dumplings served with_______; pancake rolls stuffed with________________
______is important
to the people there.
Shandong cuisine
vinegar
sliced Chinese green onions
Family
Para5
Then we moved to northern Xinjiang. Some of our friends were Kazak and Inner Mongolian. These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses. As a result, their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire—usually boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab.
Main idea: the experience with______________________________
northwest China cuisine in Xinjiang
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Northwest China
Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian
cuisine
____________meat, such as lamb kebab
People traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are____________________.
boiled or roasted
what you can cook over
an open fire
Para6
Our travels then took us to South China, and then on to central China. In each place we went, we experienced wonderful local dishes, from Guangdong's elegant dim sum—small servings of food in bamboo steamers—to the exceptional stewed noodles In Henan. Everywhere, the food was as varied as the people. However, one thing is always true: Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.
Main idea: the experience with _____________________________
south and central China cuisine
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Northwest China
South China
Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian
cuisine
boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab
People traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire.
Guangdong
cuisine
dim sum
Show_______________________
friendship and kindness.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Northwest China
South China
Central China Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian
cuisine
boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab
People traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire.
Guangdong
cuisine
Henan cuisine
dim sum
stewed noodles
show friendship and kindness.
Para7
At a minimum, the kinds of food local people consume tell us what they grow in their region, what kinds of lives they lead, and what they like and do not like. Could we also say, for example, that those who like bold flavors are bold themselves Or, that those who like spicy food tend to have a hot temper Maybe. Maybe not. What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other.
Main idea: Culture and cuisine ______________
go hand in hand.
Para.7 Conclusion
culture
cuisine
Careful Reading
The author drew the conclusion that .
food and culture go hand in hand.
... if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other.
cuisine; culture
Read for the structure: fill in the blanks.
Part 1:(para__)
Part 2: (para___)
Part 3: (para__)
Introduce the topic: You are _____________.
The writer’s ___________ of different Chinese food in different places.
Conclusion: Culture and cuisine ___________ .
what you eat
experiences
go hand in hand
1
2-6
7
Fast Reading
The writer described his experience in the order of ________________.
time and space
clue words
Fast Reading
Food
Different places
Culture
① People live in different places, so they share
different local cultures.
② They share different local cultures, as a result,
they have different kinds of food.
Activity 3 Reasoning and Analysis
What is the relationship between them
cause
effect
cause
effect
Phrases
1 put more simply/ (to) put it simply
2 relate……to……
3 refer to
4 a case in point
5 prior to
6 consist of
7 recommend sth. to sb.
8 fill……with……
1 简单地说,简而言之
2 把……和……联系在一起
3 指的是
4 恰当的例子
5 在……之前的
6 由……组成(或构成)
7 向某人推荐某物
8 用……装满……
Phrases
9 水饺配醋
10 煎饼卷大葱
11 烤羊肉串
12 精致的点心
13 特色炖面条
14 至少
15 易于做某事;倾向于做某事
16 (两件事)密切相关地;携手共进
9 boiled dumplings served with vinegar
10 pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions
11 lamp kebab
12 elegant dim sum
13 exceptional stewed noodles
14 at a minimum
15 tend to do sth.
16 go hand in hand