Vocabulary

Nouns
Food and beverages

Bagel: a type of bread for one person to eat that is made in the shape of a ring

Cilantro: the leaves of the coriander plant, used to add flavour to food.

Coconut:The fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a fibrous husk surrounding a

large seed.

Comfort foods: the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried,
often sweet food or food that people ate as children.

Curry: a dish, originally from South Asia, consisting of

meat or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce.

Eggplant: an oval, purple vegetable that is white inside.

Fish: an animal that lives only in water, eaten as food.

Garlic: a vegetable like a small onion with a very strong taste and smell.

Guacamole: a thick mixture of avocado (= a green tropical fruit), tomato, onion,

and spices, usually eaten cold.

Kebab: a dish consisting of small pieces of meat and vegetables that have been
put on a long, thin stick or metal rod and cooked together.

Lamb: a young sheep, or the flesh of a young sheep eatenas meat.

Lime: a round fruit containing a lot of juice that is sour like

a lemon but smaller and green, or the small tree on which this fruit grows.

Meat: the flesh of an animal when it is used for food.

Oil: a smooth thick liquid produced from plants or animals that is used in cooking.

Peanut butter: soft, pale brown substance made from crushed

peanuts,often eaten spread on bread.

(chili) pepper: any of several types of red pepper (= type of vegetable) that are
used to make foods spicy.
Popcorn: seeds of maize that are heated until they break open
and become soft and light, usually flavoured with salt, butter, or sugar

Ramen: a Japanese meat or fish soup containing noodles (=long thin strips made
from flour, water, and egg) and vegetables

Salt: a common white substance found in sea waterand in the ground,

used especially to add flavour to food or to preserve it.

Sauce: a thick liquid eaten with food to add flavour.

Snail: a small creature with a soft, wet body and a round shell,
that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants.

Soda: any type of sweet fizzy drink (= with bubbles) that is not alcoholic.

Soy sauce: a strong-tasting, dark brown liquid made from fermented

soya beans and used especially in Chinese andJapanese cooking.

Spice: a substance made from a plant, used to give aspecial flavour to food.

Toast: sliced bread made warm, crisp (= hard enough tobreak), and brown by
being put near a high heat.

Other

Appetizer: a small amount of food eaten before a meal.

(the) Blues: A cool and delicious drink found mostly in Albert Heijns for a
measly 30c. It mixes well and makes every alcoholic drink apart from beer taste
better.

Bowl: a round container that is open at the top and is deep enough
to hold fruit, sugar, etc.

Brain: the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings,
and activity.

Bunch: A considerable amount of things of the same kind.

Charcoal: a hard, black substance similar to coal that can be used as fuel or, in
the form of sticks, as something to draw with.

Competition: a situation in which someone is trying to win something or be

more successful than someone else.
Cookbook: a book that explains how to prepare particular dishes.

Diet: the food and drink usually eaten or drunk by a person or group.

Dish: food prepared in a particular way as part of ameal.

Dough: flour mixed with water and often yeast, fat, or sugar, so that it
is ready for baking.

Drivers license: official permission for someone to drive a car,

received after passing a driving test, or a document showing this.

Free time: time available for hobbies and other activities that you enjoy.

Grill: a frame of metal bars over a fire on which food can be put to be cooked.

Mixture: a substance made from a combination of different substances, or

any combination of different things.

Model: something that a copy can be based on because it is

an extremely good example of its type.

Mood: the way you feel at a particular time.

Order: a request to make, supply, or deliver food or goods.

Pan: a metal container that is round and often has along handle and a lid, used
for cooking things on top of a cooker.

Password: a secret word or phrase that is used to obtain access to

a place, information, or a computer system.

Plate: a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from
or serve food from.

Recipe: a set of instructions telling you how to prepare and

cook food, including a list of what food is needed for this.

Server: a person who serves food in a restaurant.

Side: an edge or border of something.

Skewer: a long, thin metal pin used for holding together pieces
of food, especially meat, during cooking.

Slice: a flat, often thin, piece of food that has been cut from a larger piece.
Stew: a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and
vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount of liquid.

Survey: an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc., made

by asking people questions.

Tablespoon: (the amount held by) a large spoon used for measuring
or serving food.

Warmth: a high temperature that is comfortable but not hot.

Adjectives
For food and beverages

Delicious: having a very pleasant taste or smell.

Ethnic: relating to a particular race of people.

Juicy: Juicy foods contain a lot of juice and are enjoyable to eat.

Lean: Lean meat has little fat. thin and healthy.

Marinated: meat or fish marinade.

Melted: having turned soft or into a liquid.

Rich: If food is rich, it contains a large amount of oil, butter, eggs, or cream.

Soothing: making you feel calm.

Strange: unusual and unexpected, or difficult to understand.

Tempting: If something is tempting, you want to do or have it.

Tough: Tough food is difficult to cut or eat.

Other

Anxious: worried and nervous.

Clay: containing a lot of clay.

Depressed: unhappy and without hope.

Low (= unhappy): sad or not satisfied.

Irritable: becoming annoyed very easily.

Secure: free from risk and the threat of change for the worse.

Stressed: worried and nervous.

Verbs
Cooking methods

Bake: to cook inside an oven.

Boil: to reach, or cause something to reach, the temperature at which

a liquid starts to turn into a gas.

Fry: to cook food in hot oil or fat.

Grill: to cook something on a frame of metal bars, usually over a gas orcoal fire.

Roast: to cook food in an oven or over a fire.

Steam: If food is steamed, it is cooked by steam.

Toast: to make sliced bread brown by putting it near a high heat.

Other

Calm down: to stop feeling upset, angry, or excited, or to stop someone

feeling this way.

Cheer up: If someone cheers up, or something cheers someone up, they
start to feel happier.

Chop: to cut something into pieces with a sharp tool, such as an ax.

Close: to change from being open to not being open, or to cause this tohappen.

Contain: to have something inside or include something as apart.

Cool: to become or cause something to become slightly colder.

Cover: to put or spread something over something, or to lie on thesurface of

something.

Cry: to produce tears as the result of a strong emotion, such

asunhappiness or pain.
Cut up: to behave in a very active and silly way in order to make people laugh.

Influence: to affect or change how someone or something develops, behaves,

or thinks.

Marinate: to pour a marinade over meat or fish; to be left in a marinade.

Mash: to beat or crush something into a soft mass.

Mix: to (cause different substances to) combine, so that

theresult cannot easily be separated into its parts.

Not care for (= not like): to not like something or someone.

Order: to ask for something to be made, supplied, or delivered,especially in

a restaurant or shop.

Outsmart: to to obtain an advantage over someone by

using your intelligence and often by using a trick; to outwit.

Pop: to put or take something quickly.

Pour: to make a substance flow, esp. out of a container and usually into
another container.

Refrigerate: to make or keep something, esp. food or drink, cold so that it stays
fresh, usually in a refrigerator.

Relieve (stress): to make an unpleasant feeling, such as pain or worry,

lessstrong.

Roll out: to make a new product, service, or system available for the first time.

Shake: to move something backward and forward or up and down

inquick, short movements.

Soothe: to make someone feel calm or less worried.

Spread: to cover or cause something to cover anobject or an area.

Squeeze: to press something firmly, or to force something out, esp. a liquid,

by pressing.

Turn over: If an engine turns over, its parts move in order to make
the enginestart running.
Adverbs

From time to time: Once in a while; at intervals.

Lightly: If food is lightly cooked, it is cooked for only a short time: gently.

Powerfully: With intense energy and force.

Conjunction

As well as: in addition; and also.