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From the Ted Talk by Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat
Unscramble the Blue Letters
They both get it wrong, though. The first at least is populist, and the second is etsilit. How we got to this place is the history of food in the uetind saetts. And I'm going to go through that, at least the last hundred years or so, very quickly right now. A hundred years ago, guess what? Everyone was a locavore: even New York had pig fmars nearby, and shipping food all over the place was a ridiculous notion. Every family had a cook, usually a mom. And those moms bought and prepared food. It was like your romantic vsiion of Europe. Margarine didn't exist. In fact, when margarine was invented, several states passed laws dleancrig that it had to be dyed pink, so we'd all know that it was a fake. There was no snack food, and until the '20s, until Clarence Birdseye came along, there was no fezron food. There were no rearutsnat chains. There were neighborhood rrttenaauss run by loacl people, but none of them would think to open another one. Eating ethnic was unheard of unless you were ethnic. And fancy food was entirely fernch. As an aside, those of you who remember Dan Aykroyd in the 1970s doing Julia Child imitations can see where he got the idea of stabbing himself from this fabulous slide. (Laughter)
Open Cloze
They both get it wrong, though. The first at least is populist, and the second is _______. How we got to this place is the history of food in the ______ ______. And I'm going to go through that, at least the last hundred years or so, very quickly right now. A hundred years ago, guess what? Everyone was a locavore: even New York had pig _____ nearby, and shipping food all over the place was a ridiculous notion. Every family had a cook, usually a mom. And those moms bought and prepared food. It was like your romantic ______ of Europe. Margarine didn't exist. In fact, when margarine was invented, several states passed laws _________ that it had to be dyed pink, so we'd all know that it was a fake. There was no snack food, and until the '20s, until Clarence Birdseye came along, there was no ______ food. There were no __________ chains. There were neighborhood ___________ run by _____ people, but none of them would think to open another one. Eating ethnic was unheard of unless you were ethnic. And fancy food was entirely ______. As an aside, those of you who remember Dan Aykroyd in the 1970s doing Julia Child imitations can see where he got the idea of stabbing himself from this fabulous slide. (Laughter)
Solution
- french
- elitist
- farms
- declaring
- restaurants
- frozen
- restaurant
- united
- states
- local
- vision
Original Text
They both get it wrong, though. The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist. How we got to this place is the history of food in the United States. And I'm going to go through that, at least the last hundred years or so, very quickly right now. A hundred years ago, guess what? Everyone was a locavore: even New York had pig farms nearby, and shipping food all over the place was a ridiculous notion. Every family had a cook, usually a mom. And those moms bought and prepared food. It was like your romantic vision of Europe. Margarine didn't exist. In fact, when margarine was invented, several states passed laws declaring that it had to be dyed pink, so we'd all know that it was a fake. There was no snack food, and until the '20s, until Clarence Birdseye came along, there was no frozen food. There were no restaurant chains. There were neighborhood restaurants run by local people, but none of them would think to open another one. Eating ethnic was unheard of unless you were ethnic. And fancy food was entirely French. As an aside, those of you who remember Dan Aykroyd in the 1970s doing Julia Child imitations can see where he got the idea of stabbing himself from this fabulous slide. (Laughter)
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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junk food |
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organic food |
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global warming |
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red herring |
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ate food |
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eat real |
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home cooking |
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ice cream |
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corn products |
2 |
stop eating |
2 |
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