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TOPICS

Cook-offs and bake-offs; public health codes; a software evangelist; to look

forward to; sandwich versus hamburger

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GLOSSARY

to grill – to cook food, usually meat, outdoors over very high (or strong) heat

* Do you like your chicken grilled or baked in the oven?

competition – an event where many people or teams do something to see who

does it best

* Come and join us! We’re having a competition in the park to see who can run

the fastest.

judge – a person who decides who the winner is; a person who decides which is

correct or the best

* The judge at the dog show picked Dan’s dog as the best one out of the entire

group.

chili – a thick soup that has beans, ground beef or turkey, tomatoes, and chili

peppers; a type of hot red pepper

* On a cold day, I look forward to having a large bowl of chili when I get home

from work.

recipe – instructions for making a type of food; instructions on how to prepare a

particular dish of food

* Nickie has a secret recipe for making cookies. She never shows it to anyone

else.

to sample – to taste a little bit of a food or drink; to try a little of all the different

kinds of things

* We went to the place where they make wine and we were able to sample all of

the wines they make.

sponsor – a person, company, or business that give money so that an event or

program can happen

* Do you think that Monica’s company will sponsor our sports team this year?

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code – law, usually made by the government; rule

* The Johnsons didn’t follow the city code when they built their new home and

now have to pay a fine.

sanitary – clean and healthy; without a lot of dirty or harmful things that can

make people sick

* Your kitchen is so dirty! I don’t think it’s sanitary to eat in there.

inspection – a test or visit to see if a person, business, or organization is

following the law or the rules

* The inspectors visited our factory and didn’t find any problems.

grade – score; a judgment of something’s quality or value

* The beef with a low grade is less expensive than the beef with a high grade at

the grocery store.

to revoke – to take something away after it has been given; to take back

* If I get one more traffic ticket, the state will revoke my driver’s license.

evangelist – a person who tries to convince people to become Christian;

someone who tries to convince other people to believe in something

* On Sunday morning, a group of evangelists knocked on my door and wanted to

tell me about their religion.

to look forward to – to be pleased about something in the future; a positive

feeling about something that is coming

* People who are over 60 years old can look forward to retirement at the age of

65.

sandwich – two pieces of bread that contain one or more items between them

such as meat, cheese, or vegetables like lettuce, tomato slices, or onion

* At the restaurant, Shana ordered a ham sandwich and a large soda.

hamburger – a round flat shaped piece of ground beef (beef cut into very small

pieces) that is fried and usually served between two round pieces of bread

* Last weekend, we cooked hamburgers in our backyard and invited our

neighbors to eat with us.

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

A Love of Grilling

Americans have a love of cooking outdoors, especially grilling over a gas or

charcoal grill. Because of this, many U.S. restaurants will advertise their menu

items – typically meats such as chicken or steaks – as “grilled” or “barbecued,”

which is when the food is cooked directly over a fire or a source of dry heat. The

food will often be served with “grill marks,” which are the dark lines made by the

grill’s metal surface as the meat cooks.

Some people consider grilling or barbecuing to be an art, or at least something to

“take pride in” (to feel proud of or good about) and to try to “perfect” (make

without faults or flaws). People can buy barbecue sauces or marinades (liquid to

put the meat in for a period of time before cooking) from the store. You will find

many different kinds of barbecue sauce in any grocery store.

Many people who grill or barbecue, however, create their own barbecue sauces,

which are brushed onto the meat while it is cooking to give it flavor. Also to add

flavor, people use different kinds of wood to mix in with the “coals” (black burning

rock used for fuel). For example, you may find many people cooking with the

wood of the mesquite tree or the hickory tree, which people say gives food a

“rich” (full and strong) taste.

In addition to cooking traditional foods such as hamburgers and hot dogs on a

grill, people can put many different kinds of food on skewers to cook. “Skewers”

are long, thin metal sticks that you can put small pieces of meat, seafood, and

vegetables on to cook over the grill, without the small pieces falling through the

spaces on the grill. Other people like to add a “rotisserie” to their grill, which

allows them to put an entire chicken or large pieces of meat to cook over the grill,

but that can also be turned easily so that all sides get cook evenly.

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 160.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 160. I’m your host, Dr.

Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in

the beautiful City of Los Angeles, California.

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On this Café, we’re going to talk about cook-offs and bake-offs, two events which

are very popular in some parts of the United States, especially in the summer.

We’re also going to talk about public health codes (or laws) that help keep

Americans healthy when they eat at restaurants. And as always, we’ll answer a

few of your questions. Let’s get started.

One of the things that Americans do during the months of summer is to grill

outside. “Grilling” means to cook food, usually meat, outside (outdoors) over

very high (or strong) heat. We have special machines called outdoor grills or

barbeques that use either gas or coal to make the heat. A grill usually has a

piece of metal lies above the heat, and that’s where you put the food that you

want to cook. It’s very traditional in the United States, especially during a party in

the summertime or on a major summer holiday, to have a barbecue, to people

over and to cook food outside on this outdoor cooking device, the grill. People

enjoy grilling hamburgers and hot dogs in the summertime; those are the two

most popular foods.

I don’t grill very often. I have a grill, but it doesn’t work. I think the gas ran out.

But most people have grills that do work, and some people like it so much that

they enter competitions. A “competition” is like a contest; it’s an event where

many people or teams try to do something to see who is best. When we’re

talking about cooking, there are special competitions that are called “cook-offs.”

In a cook-off many people are in the competition trying to cook the same type of

food. Then you have “judges,” people who taste the food, eat a little bit of each

person’s food, and then decide who has cooked the best tasting food. Judges

decide who the winner of the competition (of the cook-off) is.

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Cook-offs take place outdoors. The most common summer cook-off is what’s

called a chili cook-off. “Chili” (chili) is what we call a type of hot red pepper, or

vegetable. But chili is also the name of a thick soup that has beans, often beef,

tomatoes, and these hot chili peppers. There are a lot of different “recipes” or

instructions for making chili. That’s why a cook-off is so interesting, because

everyone has a slightly different recipe.

At a cook-off, you can see how people make chili, and you can “sample,” or taste

a little bit of the different kinds. You usually get a small free sample if you go to

the cook-off, and then if you want more you can buy a bowl of the chili from the

person who’s making it. Chili is often very “spicy” meaning hot, but hot not in

temperature, hot, rather, in terms of a very hot pepper. It makes your mouth feel

like it is on fire.

Some cook-offs are for individuals and some of them are for teams. Other cook-

offs are only for professional “chefs,” people who run a restaurant for example.

There will sometimes be cook-offs at local “fairs,” local gatherings where people

come together for entertainment. This happens sometimes in the summertime.

Just like there are cook-offs, there are also bake-offs. “Baking” is when you put

something in a hot oven, usually things like bread, cookies, cake, pies, and other

kinds of desserts. That’s baking. Baking can also be used with meat and

vegetables when you put something into the oven to cook it, a turkey or a

chicken for example.

Bake-offs are usually sponsored by food companies. To “sponsor” means that

the food company gives money to pay for the event. For example, Nike, a

company that makes shoes for running, often sponsors sporting events, like

races. Sponsoring is good advertising for a company, and bake-offs are, like

races, often sponsored by a company, in this case companies that make food.

One of the most famous bake-offs is called the Pillsbury bake-off here in the U.S.

This is sponsored by a company which happens to be in Minneapolis called

Pillsbury. This is a company in Minnesota. “Competitors,” people who are in the

competition, can make whatever they want, as long as they use some of the

Pillsbury flour, which is one kind of food that Pillsbury Company makes. The

judges then taste the food and decide which recipe is best. Pillsbury bake-offs

began back in 1949, and are usually, or used to be, I should say, held every

year. Now it’s every two years.

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