The Restaurant Run by Grandmas

Before you watch, match the vocabulary with it’s’ definition:

1. To run (restaurant/shop) A.to give someone a job

2. To employ B. Sadness/pain

3. Cuisine C. to own and work in a business like a café, store, etc

4. To be comforting D. to squeeze someone’s face with love with your fingers

5. Grief E. the food and dishes of some culture

6. Pinch a cheek F. to bring joy and comfort to someone

Watch the video and say if the sentences are true or false:
1. The Enoteca café is in Staten Island.
2. All of the grandmothers, who work in the café, are Italian.
3. Every night there are three grandmothers cooking.
4. When Jody opened the restaurant, his mother and brother died.
5. During their dinner at the café, people talk about their family.

Back to you! Talk about….

 Is there a favourite dish in your family that your grandmother or grandfather

makes?

 Do you think it’s important to pass on family recipes?

 Do you think food can take you on ‘a trip down memory lane’?