unit11FoodandCooking.ppt

Unit 11 Food and Cooking Idioms and hot words bring home the bacon 谋生 hot potato 烫手的山芋 bad egg 坏蛋，恶棍 big cheese 老板 the cream of the crop 最优秀的人 one smart cookie 聪明人 use one’s noodles 思考 chew the fat 闲聊 Topic 1 (for group 1): What’s your favorite food? Why do you like it? Topic 2 (for group 2): What kind of food do you think is healthy food? Topic 3 (for group 3): When you eat out, do you prefer Chinese food or western fast food? Why? Topic 4 (for group 4): Do you often skip breakfast? What would you say to people who often skip breakfast? Activity 1 Cooking Methods Cooking Methods They include boiling (煮), stewing (煲/炖), braising (烧/焖/烩), frying (煎), stir-frying (炒), quick-frying (爆), deep-frying (炸), frying and simmering (扒), sautéing (快煎), simmering (煨), smoking (熏), roasting or barbecuing (烤), baking (烘), steaming (蒸) and scalding (白灼) Yin-yang Principle Each food has its own characteristics of yin or yang. Yin foods are thin, cooling and low in calories. Yang foods are rich, spicy, warming and high in calories. Boiling food makes them yin; frying them makes them yang Eight Regional Cuisines Foods vary from north to south. Tastes also differ regionally because of the climatic differences. One popular summary of Chinese food is “sweet in the south, salty in the north, sour in the west and spicy in the east”. Activity 3 Group Work: Every group can choose three students to give us typical characteristics of Chinese cuisines and also give us one special food for each Chinese cuisine. Shandong Cuisine, also known as Lu Cai, is famous for its qualities of freshness, clear colors, dedication to fragrance and pure tastes. Sichuan Cuisine, also known as Chuan Cai, is famous for its many flavors, especially for its hot and pungent flavoring. Almost every dish has its own unique taste. Guangdong Cuisine is known as Yue Cai (粤菜). Tasting clean, light, crisp and fresh. It usually has fowl (家禽) and other meats to produce its unique dishes. Fujian Cuisine