Comfort food

Yovanni Suarez
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• What’s your favourite food? How often do you eat it?
My favorite food is pork in all its presentations, I eat it when I have the opportunity and I
order it more when I don't bring lunch to work.
• What’s yourfavourite restaurant? Why?
I don't have a favorite restaurant
• How often do you eat ina restaurant?
when I don't bring lunch to work, I can go to the restaurant for up to a full week
• Describe an everyday meal from your country and tell how toprepare it.
the empanada
is very common in Colombia, it is prepared with wheat flour, meat or chicken and
rice.
• Which country do you think has the best food?
for me there is no country that has better food, in general everyone has a different
culture.
• What food do you refuse to eat? Why?
I don't like all kinds of vegetables, since I was a child I hated vegetables and to this
day I don't eat them because of their ugly taste.
• Can you give some examples of fast food (also: junk food)?
hamburgers, french fries, empanadas, fried chicken, hot dogs, sandwiches, fried
foods, sodas and candies
• How often do you eat fast food?
once a week
• What arethe mostpopular dishes in your country?
the most typical foods are: tamales, lechona, empanadas, bandeja paisa and changua.
• What do people usually eat on a special holiday (like New Year)?
in my family we usually eat lechona or sancocho
• Have you ever eaten Japanese food? Did you likeit?
I once ate Chinese rice but I didn't like it.
• When did you last go to a nice restaurant? What did you order?
I ordered pork ribs in sauce with french fries and lemonade.
• If you visited a country where people ate snake or dog, would you try it?
if the snake would try it but not the dog
• Have you ever eaten insects or snails? Would you like to try them?
I have eaten ants in Bucaramanga and they taste good.
• Can you cook?What is the last dish you cooked?
I know how to cook very little but the last time I made something it was plantain
empanadas.
• What’s the strangest foodyou have ever eaten?
I have eaten horse and chigger
• Is there a pet in your family? What does it eat?
we have no pets in the house
• Who usually does the cooking in your family?
in the family my mother or my sister cooks

1. Answerthe following questionswithout looking on the internet,answer

themfrom your own experience, from the knowledge you have, from what
you think it may be:a.what do you understand by comfort food?

comfort food is some food that calms you down and soothes you from some
situation.

2. What do you usually eat when you are?

I don't have a food that calms me in any of my senses but if I had to say one
it would be the stuffed arepa.

3. While you watch Watch the video you will find attached or you can also
watch it in this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4NOt727wqIWhile you watch the
video write as many words/ expressions as you understandand/or
recognize in the video.

✓ And the beauty of comfort food is that it varies

✓ from person to person.
✓ It's rooted in where you're from
✓ and who you grew up with.
✓ We asked 20 people from different cultural backgrounds
✓ to share what comfort food is to them.
✓ I'll start with mine.
✓ My favorite comfort food is kimchi jjigae,
✓ or kimchi stew.
✓ I'm Korean American,
✓ and, growing, up my mom made kimchi jjigae
✓ pretty often for dinner.
✓ It contains tomatoes, onions,
✓ some people put tahini in it,
✓ and we put in it a lot of spices.
✓ Usually, people eat it with pita bread.
✓ It's my favorite comfort food because, over the summer,
✓ my grandpa would make it for breakfast a lot.
✓ So we'd wake up, and it would be there.
✓ It has, like...
✓ you can put stuff in it.
✓ So, you can put, like, meat, chicken,
✓ you can put vegetables.
✓ I mean, they wrap it around a banana leaf,
✓ and then they boil it.

4. After you watchdiscuss (try just to TALK)Which of the comfort foods

was your favorite? Why?Which of the comfort foods was the most
interesting for you?Is the meaning of “comfort food”you gave at the
beginning close to itsreal meaning?

my favorite meal was grilled cheese, to me I think comfort food means you
can have it all the time, whether you are happy, sad, tired exhausted or
energized. Personally, I don't even like vegetables, but for someone it can be
their comfort food that they can have all the time whenever they want, without
even thinking about the preparations to make a big meal.

5. Write about your comfort food.

my favorite food is pork, i love the taste and the many ways to prepa re it.
pork ribs, roast pork loin, breaded pork, roast pork and many more. even
though it's bad i take the risk.