1 . Maybe you grew up eating food made by your grandmothers, mouth-watering dishes that bring back sweet, unforgettable memories. Perhaps it was Italian noodles or even Chinese dumplings. Now, at Enoteca Maria, a unique restaurant in New York City, you can eat the dishes same to your grandmother’s cooking.
When Joe Scaravella opened his restaurant, he named it after his mother. Then, in order to remember his grandmother, Joe invited local grandmothers to cook Italian dishes in his kitchen. “I wanted to try to recreate that: the grandma cooking in the kitchen”, he said.
Enoteca Maria is an Italian restaurant where half of the menu changes daily. The fixed half is Italian; the changeable half includes cuisines from all over the world. And what makes the restaurant unique is not professional chefs calling the shots in the kitchen, but grandmothers! Each night, a grandmother from a different country designs a fresh menu, honoring her native cuisine and the food she loves best. Currently, the restaurant is only open three days a week: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Although it’s usually packed, the grandmothers arrange everything orderly.
When the restaurant first opened, several local Italian grandmothers from different Italian regions would cook their own special dishes on a regular schedule, sometimes launching friendly competitions of whose dish was better. When people from different cultures visited the restaurant to get a taste of original Italy, Scaravella decided to extend the competition to include women from across the globe, to make sense to celebrate every culture, and thus, in 2015, the “Grandmothers of the World” initiative was born.
Now, business is running at full speed with around 30 grandmothers from different nationalities cooking in the kitchen.
1. What inspired Scaravella to invite grandmothers to cook in the restaurant?A.The interest in cooking. | B.The love for his mother. |
C.The desire to recreate Italian dishes. | D.The wish to honor his grandmother. |
A.Updated menus. | B.Local cuisines. |
C.Grandmother chefs. | D.Foreign dishes. |
A.To create better dishes. | B.To attract more visitors. |
C.To extend the business. | D.To present different cultures. |
A.Grandmothers’ cooking wins hearts | B.Italian cuisine occupies the market |
C.Grandmothers run the restaurant | D.Homemade dishes go popular |
A.Shopping lists. | B.Eating habits. | C.Cooking methods. |
Robot Chef Learns to Twirl (旋转) Pizza Like a Pro
Pizza has a proud history of fueling late-night lab work, and scientists in Naples—an Italian city famous for its pizza—have easy access to some of the world’s tastiest take-out. But what inspires engineer Bruno Siciliano is not that first bite
“Preparing a pizza involves an extraordinary level of agility and dexterity (敏捷和灵巧),” says Siciliano, who directs a robotics research group at the University of Naples Federico Ⅱ. Stretching a deformable object like a lump of dough (面团) requires an accurate and gentle touch. It is one of the few things humans can handle, but robots cannot—yet.
Siciliano’s team
RoDyMan has been working this spring toward a milestone: stretching the dough
RoDyMan uses visual sensors in its head to track the dough in real time. Using software, it can train
Yet Siciliano admits that
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5 . Over the past ten months of pandemic life, cooking has become a shelter for me. New York Times food editor Sam Sifton referred to Korean fried rice and said it "improves moods, atmospheres and weeks alike".
Cooking food for yourself is beneficial to your physical health. When you cook your own food, you control exactly what goes into your body. It's the best possible way to “dial in” or clean up your diet.
In terms of improving cooking skill, you can't help but improve if you do it over and over again. With so many other outlets for hobbies shut down right now, why not view your kitchen as a mini universe to be explored? You've got the tools, not to mention the human requirement to eat. I can't think of another hobby where your body physically requires you to practice several times daily.
How does cooking relieve stress, you might be wondering?
A.Cooking helps kids develop many hobbies. |
B.Actually, cooking can bring more benefits. |
C.The act itself can be calming to some people. |
D.From a financial aspect, cooking cannot be beaten. |
E.You can save money as well as improve your mental health. |
F.If improving health is your main reason for cooking, you're not alone. |
G.You're likely to improve your cooking skills and they will stick with you for life. |
The “sour and spicy shredded (细丝) potato” is a typical home cooking dish in China which
Wash the potatoes and remove the skin. Cut them into thin and similar shreds. Put in salt water for a few minutes
A.He owns a restaurant. | B.He is skilled in cooking. | C.He likes Italy. |
As a vast country, China currently has eight major cuisine (烹饪) types. Climates, histories and dining customs differ greatly,
For example, the Sichuan cuisine is famous
Huaian is located on the north-south divide of China, with Yangzhou nearby. The geographical location provides the district with
The Huaiyang menu takes fish as its main feature, as both the cities are not far from the Yangtze River, the
9 . A short cooking video posted by a netizen on Tik Tok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag “Chinese food”, the video not only showed off the chef’s superb skills in making Chinese dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China’s unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200,000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chinese dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. “Even the most basic Chinese dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to have sharp eyes, but also valuable experience,” said Wang, an experienced Chinese chef in Guangzhou.
Chinese cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include “odd food” challenges, traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
“I have been a fan of Chinese food ever since my Chinese friend cooked me di san xian at university. I was surprised by the dish’s taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me because I noticed we share similar cooking skills,” said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
“I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. These videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying ‘I want to try it’, I felt these videos can narrow the gap between the two cultures,” said Mr. Bean, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chinese cooking.
1. What does the underlined word “omnivore” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A.People eating meat. | B.People eating vegetables. |
C.People eating diverse food. | D.People eating Chinese food. |
A.Common and dear. | B.Special and familiar. |
C.Strange but delicious. | D.Unfamiliar and disconnected. |
A.The majority of his fans tasted the food he cooked. |
B.His roommate encouraged him to cook Chinese food. |
C.He is an expert determined to become a Chinese chef. |
D.His videos make a difference to cultural communication. |
A.Chinese food has aroused people’s interest overseas. |
B.The video is more master-level than standard homemade. |
C.Chinese dish has three elements: color, smell and nutrition. |
D.Chinese chefs have become popular among young vloggers. |
10 . Whenever I’ve had a few stressful weeks, I typically schedule a “cooking day”. Working on recipes that I already know builds my confidence; trying out some new ones adds an element of surprise. In the end, I feel satisfied by the products of my work.
Another key feature of cooking is that it’s connected to and shaped by the past. What you choose to cook, and the way you prepare it, might issue in part from the preferences and techniques of your parents, grandparents, friends or partners.
Trying new recipes and new ingredients can help you with the creation of new memories.
The next time you step into the kitchen and try your hand at a new dish, try to consciously take notice of what’s going on in your mind and in your body, of what sorts of feelings cooking brings out in you.
A.Cooking engages all five senses. |
B.For me, cooking is a stress-relieving way. |
C.Through cooking, I can get back control of my life. |
D.You are cooking, in this sense, for your future self. |
E.Each smell and taste has the power to revive certain memories. |
F.It helps focus on a task, offering you a sense of power and control. |
G.Giving it a try can demonstrate the benefits of sensory experience. |