Food and cooking
Food adulteration
Prepositions
Language skills
100

What do we call a "unit" of bread as you buy it in a shop?

a loaf of bread

100

A word we use to say "dishonest trick" or "lie from which someone will profit":

a swindle

100

to listen __ music

TO

100

What expressions do we use when we want to say:

1: "me also yes"

2: "me also no"

1: me too

2: me (n)either

200

The general name for plants we farm in fields to eat them:

crops

200

What's the difference between "clean" and "pure"?

Clean = hygiene

Pure = one ingredient / morality

200

to spend money __ sth

ON

200

Pronounce this word: memorable

mem-r-b'l

300

The general name for small "machines" we use in the kitchen:

kitchen appliances

300

The sticker on packaging that tells you information about the product:

the label
300

to be __ a party

AT

300

What's the difference between "few" and "a few"?

Few = not many

A few = some

400

What do we call a product you bought because you saw it, not because you were planning to buy it?

an impulse purchase

400

List at least 3 expressions used for adulterating food (like increasing the size, reducing the concentration, etc.):

to pad X with Y

to bulk X with Y

to thin X with Y

to doctor X with Y

to water sth down

400

it depends __ sth

ON

400

Using vague language ("sort of like", "resembles X", "lemon-y taste", etc.) describe a fruit, vegetable, ingredient or spice:

It's a sort of white powder, it resembles flour, but it's very sweet, and you can use it for taste and decoration = powdered sugar

500

A phrase that means "spend a lot of money on sth":

to shell out on sth / to fork out for sth

500

An idiomatic expression we use to say someone is risking their life by doing sth:

to be dicing with death / to be gambling with your life

500

X is associated __ Y

WITH

500

Using strong quantifiers ("as much as 50%", "as little as 10%", "a massive amount of X", "up to a half", "virtually zero", etc.) describe a food that is often faked, or describe any difficult situation you prefer:

Real wasabi is very rare, up to 90% of wasabi on the market is fake, virtually no one from outside of Japan has tasted the real thing.