Exercise 5

How do you cook food?

We boil, fry, roast, grill, curry, braise, steam, simmer, sauté food. We season food to taste with salt, sugar, pepper (ground pepper, corn pepper), garlic, onion, shallot, leek, parsley (roots and leaves), parsnip, celery roots, dill, bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom, almond, nutmeg, horse-radish, vinegar, mustard etc.

We sauté onions in fat or sunflower oil, we coat meat with flour (breadcrumbs), with sauce, we dip meat into hot fat or beaten egg and stew or simmer it till it is done. We add salt, sugar or vinegar to taste. We garnish meat, fish or other seafood with chopped parsley, dill, carrots, pieces of hard-boiled egg, etc. We dress (season) salad either with sour cream and mayonnaise or with vegetable oil and vinegar.

Think about your answer to the question above. Is it the same or different? Why ‘yes’? Why ‘no’?