FOOD

FOOD

1. Idioms

   • Food for thought
     • sth that makes you think a lot about a particular subject
     • Interviewees' answers on which local facilities ought to be remodeled hasgiven us much food for thought
   • To have many things/a lot on your plate
     • to have a lot to do
     • Women just have too many things on their plate . Juggling all their family andwork commitments is an arduous task
   • To sell like hot cakes
     • to be bought quickly and in large numbers
     • FIB's tickets have just come out. It will be difficult to purchase 2 with the startingprice. They always sell like hot cakes
   • To take sth with a pinch of salt
     • not to believe everything you are told
     • You should know dad by know. He's always exagerating, you need to take everything he says with a pinch of salt
   • The icing on the cake
     • Something that makes a good situation even better
     • Her use of linkers was flawless but her use of inversions was the icing on the cake
   • There is no use crying over spilt milk
     • There is no need to regret somethingthat has already happened or cannot be changed
     • Yes, you failed your driving test. But you'll nail it next time, there is no usecrying over spilt milk
   • Give sth to sb on a silver platter
     • To allow someone to get something very easily , without having to work for it
     • I think independence is a must-have skill, we shouldn't give them everything on a silver platter
   • Metaphors
     • Do sth for peanuts
     • Digest information
     • Land of milk and honey
       • Unusual fertility and abundance.
     • Bread and butter
       • A basic means of income
     • On a sour note
       • In an unpleasant way
     • Raw data
     • Half-baked

2. Related vocab

   • Legumes (consumption)
     • Beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas
   • Cereals
     • Wheat, rice, oat, corn, rye, malt, barley
   • Spices
     • Rosemary, pepper, cinnamon, garlic powder, paprika, cummin, curry, coriander, ginder, nutmeg, parsley (perejil), saffron
   • Intolerances
     • Lactose, fructose, gluten
   • Nutrients
     • Proteins
       • Lean meat
         • Chicken, duck, goose, turkey, quail (codorniz), partridge (perdiz)
         • Poultry (aves de corral)
       • Red meet
         • Beef, lamb, horse, ox (buey), oxen (bueyes)
     • Fats, carbohydrates or carbs, vitamins, minerals, water
     • High-fat, adequated-proteins, low-carb
   • Diet
     • Fad diet (trendy diet)
     • To fast (intermitent abstaining from food)
     • Meal replacement shakes
     • Regimen
     • Realfooding
     • Balanced diet
   • Sweet tooth: strong liking for sweet foods

3. Eat

   • VERBS: consume, swallow, have a meal, dine, eat up, snack, overeat, enjoy a meal, eat sb out of house and home (informal), feed, digest, masticate . . . . . . . NOUNS. Intake, consumption
   • VERBS: vomit, throw up (informal), barf (slang), purge, starve, fast, diet, puke (slang)
   • To describe food
     • Flawours: sour (lemon), sweet-and-sour, acidic, salty, savoury, delicious, spicy, hot
     • Texture: soft, creamy, dry, smooth, crispy, crunchy, crusty, chewy, tough, stale (duro, el pan)
     • Snacks: appetizer, elevenses, delicatessen
     • Well-coocked medium rare
     • Yummy, heady (embriagadoras)
   • Drink
     • Beverage, booze (alcoholic drinks)
     • Teetotallers: abstemin
   • Vocabulary food connotations
     • GMO (Genetically Modified)
     • Fair-trade products
     • convinience food (pree-cooked
     • Appetising/enticing aroma
       • My stomach growl
     • Healthy eating
       • Wholesome/Nourishing cooking
       • Real fooding
         • Nourishing
     • Overpowering/intense smell
     • Thisty-quenching / refreshing
       • To quench
         • thirst: satisfy
         • fire: extinguish
         • suppress
     • Peckish
       • informal (a bit hungry)
     • hungry
       • To be starving, to be famished
       • To be full, to be stuffed