Vocabulary

• nostalgia: Sad, but positive feeling about memories/the past
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
• signature: Something that represents a person's work or style
• pastry: Dough making top/bottom of pie; cake made of dough
• starch: Substance in food changed to energy in the body
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• ferment: To go through a chemical change to make alcohol
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• tropical: Hot and humid; near to the equator
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
• cabbage: Round green vegetable with tightly packed leaves
• steam: Mist collecting on a surface when wet air cools
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• shrimp: Small edible salt-water shellfish with many legs
• traditional: Involved in a custom or event common to a people
• pickle: A cucumber preserved in brine or vinegar
• pot: Container designed to hold or store something
• sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
• appetizer: Food or drink to stimulate the appetite
• deep: Complex and important
• boil: To become extremely angry or excited
• taro: Tropical herb grown for its edible root
• dessert: Sweet food usually eaten at the end of a meal
• simmer: To cook or be cooked so that it is just boiling
• bowl: Part of an object that has a rounded, inward curve
• popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
• sausage: Finely chopped and seasoned meat in a skin
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
• flake: Thin and very small piece of something
• mud: Soft, wet dirt
• famous: Excellent
• meal: Food for eating at a particular time, e.g. dinner
• prawn: Largish edible shellfish with ten legs
• crab: Sea creature with a hard shell and two claws
• fondue: Cooking pieces of food over a flame at the table
• dice: To cut food or other things into small pieces
• fry: To cook something in fat or oil
• fashion: Style of dress or activity popular at some time
• mince: To grind meat, etc. into very small pieces
• bamboo: Long light Asian plant with strong, empty stems
• dish: Shallow container that you cook or serve food in
• cider: Alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit (apples)
• pumpkin: Large roundish orange fruit that can be eaten
• onion: Strong-smelling, strong-tasting vegetable
• video: Recording capturing action with sound
• scallop: Type of shellfish with two flat, round shells
• favourite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• call: A order or request for action
• street: Road in a city with buildings and places to walk
• cashew: Kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
• bean: Large seed eaten as a vegetable
• beef: Red meat from cows
• watermelon: Large oblong or roundish melon with a green skin
• tofu: Compressed bean curd used in cooking
• pig: Animal that bacon, pork and ham come from