Barbecue, Flavors and Big Signs
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Check out some of the foods sold at this year’s Alameda County Fair (June-July 2015). Above is a basic hamburger stand selling burgers, dogs, and fries.
Page 1 Food Vocabulary:
– hot dogs (on a bun)
– corn dogs (hot dogs breaded and put on a stick)
– french fries
– curly fries (curly = in circles)
This Year’s Foods:
The fair this year featured new tastes in its food concessions, with emphasis on (1) barbecue themes pretty much everywhere and (2) a mix of flavors, ethnic and in terms of ingredients. From garlic vegetarian kabobs to tequila pickle poppers, fair food this year stretched its imagination to create mouth-watering menus and signs, surrounded by stacks everywhere of cut firewood for barbecues and smokers, sometimes for foods that aren’t barbecued at all.
Language Notes
See the title of this post, Alameda County Lays Out the Fare.
Alameda County is just east of San Francisco and includes such cities as Oakland, where the county government meets, and Pleasanton, where the fairgrounds are located.
Lay out is phrasal verb meaning “to serve,” as in food.
Fare, which is pronounced the same as fair, means “food”.
Coming Soon
English for Foods and Cooking: Learn the English needed to talk about foods and cooking. This new book from Targets in English will explore the language around meats, vegetables, fruits, and common Western dishes. The book will be released this fall.
Baseball English: This is a great book for baseball fans around the world who want to watch English broadcasts of baseball games or talk about the sport in English with friends. Whether you’re staying up late at night to watch the New York Yankees or watching the Little League World Series, Baseball English will help you get the whole cultural experience and enjoy the sport more. Baseball English will be released this summer.
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