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WORLD FOOD
Before you read
1 Where is your favourite restaurant?
2 What food from different countries do you like?
Read World Food and put these questions in the correct place in the text.
a
b
c
d

What is the strangest food you have eaten?

Can cheap food be good food?
What is the biggest meal you have ever had?
Whats your favourite restaurant?

Last week I spoke to Monica McGibney, a well-known restaurant owner in Harrogate,

North Yorkshire. I asked her about different food from around the world.
First of all I asked her,
1
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Mine of course! laughed Monica. No, actually, my favourite restaurant is in Spain, on the
coast of Majorca. They have the best seafood in the world and the restaurant is only thirty
metres from a wonderful beach and the Mediterranean!
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She didnt have to think about it for very long. A steak house in the very south of
Argentina. I think I had about half a cow on my plate together with a mountain of chips! It
was far too much for me.
My next question.
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Yes, I think it can. I had a wonderful meal when I was in Egypt with my husband, well, he
was my boyfriend at that time. We had fried bean balls called tamaya. We had about ten
balls each, together with some great bread and some yoghurt with mint. It was incredibly
good and it cost less than one euro!
3

Finally I asked Monica,

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Ive had a lot of strange food, laughed Monica. I remember some bean cakes I had in
Vietnam. They were a little strange but I think the strangest food in the world was a meal I
had in Poland. I was staying with some friends of mine in Poznan and they took me to a
local restaurant. They told me I had to try something called bigos. I had no idea what it
was but I agreed to try it. Ill try anything once! Anyway, the waiter brought it to our table
and the smell was wonderful! Bigos is a special Polish dish made with meat in a special
sauce with plums, apples, and cabbage. It was very strange but also very, very good.
Once a month I have a Polish evening in my restaurant. We have special Polish soup,
Polish dumplings, and, of course, Polish bigos!
4

Complete the chart.

What did Monica eat?
in Spain
in Egypt

She says it was

a great place for a restaurant

tamaya

in Vietnam
in Poland
in Argentina
After you read
1 Which countries do you think have the best food in the world?
2 Which is the best restaurant where you live?
3 What is the biggest meal you have ever eaten?
4 What was the cheapest meal you have eaten?
5 What is the strangest food that you have eaten?

KEY
Put these questions in the correct place: 1d; 2c; 3b; 4a
Complete the chart
What did Monica eat?

She says it was

in Spain

seafood

a great place for a restaurant

in Egypt

tamaya

very good and cheap

in Vietnam

bean cakes

a little strange

in Poland

bigos

strange but very good

in Argentina

steak

far too much for her

From English File 1, extra reading material

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