BBC 6分钟英语 吃50年前的炖菜

From BBC learning english com. Hello.

This is six

minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Phil, and I'm Beth. Most people have eaten some unusual food at least once in their life.

What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?

Beth Oh, I

ate Camel in Australia, and I really didn't like it, to be honest.

What about you? I Ate Cayman in Northern Argentina.

It was delicious. Okay, good. Well, in this program, we'll be discussing some very unusual food, known as for ever food dishes, like stews and soups, which can be kept going day after day, year after year.

We'll also be learning some useful new vocabulary, all of which you can download, along with the worksheet for this program, at our website, bbc learning english com.

But let's get back to forever food.

And a Bangkok restaurant called Watner Panic thats famous for a soup, which has been cooking for over 50 years.

Here's radio listener David Shirley, who calls BBC World Service, programmed the food chain after tasting the soup himself.

No, I had never heard of a perpetual stew before, but the 1st time I'd ever heard about it was when I was in Bangkok, I found a stew the simmer in for 50 years, david tasted perpetual stew, a pot into which ingredients have placed and cooked continuously.

The pot is never completely emptied.

Instead, new ingredients and water are added when necessary and left simmering, cooking at a temperature just below boiling so that the food bubbles gently.

A 50 year old soup might not be to everyone's taste, but for other foods are surprisingly common.

And Phil, I have a question for you about what on a panic's 50 year old soup?

What do you think is the main ingredient?

Is it a beef, b chicken, or see, vegetables?

Oh, I think vegetables. I think that's probably safer.

Okay, well, we'll find out the correct answer later in the program.

It's not just Bangkok, where people cook forever foods fushi.

Dunlop is a writer and cook specializing in Chinese food.

Here she tells BBC World Service Program The Food Chain, about a Chinese stew that is rumids to be a hundred years old.

In China, they sometimes, you know, professionals talk about having a bion la lu, which means like a hundred year old broth.

So I don't know if this is strictly true, but theoretically, as long as you have a good practice of hygiene, which is to say that you always skim it and boil it every day, and also replenish it as needed with more water, more salt, more spice it you keep tasting, then it just gets richer.

And rich cooks need to replenish it for over stew, to fill it up again with fresh ingredients before it's completely eaten by being regularly replenished.

Some dishes are rumored to last a hundred years.

Wow. That is a long time future.

Doesn't know if it's strictly true or completely true that the same stew has rarely lasted a hundred years, but she thinks it's possible in theory, as long as it's kept safe and hygienic through boiling.

Professor Martha Carlin is a historian with a special interest in medieval cookery.

Here she explains to BBC World Service Program the food chain, why long lasting foods could have been familiar to people in the Middle Ages.

In theory, it would make sense to think that people who didn't have matches or fire starters, for whom starting a fire from scratch was quite a cumbersome process, would naturally want to keep a stupot bubbling if they had the means to do that, and to avoid the labor of constantly restarting the fire, and also to make sure that they had a hot meal waiting at any time.

Having hot food bubbling away on the fire means there is always something ready to eat, and avoids having to start a fire from scratch.

When you do something like cook food or make a fire from scratch, you do it from the beginning, without the help of anything that has already been made.

Starting a fire is also cumbersome, an adjective, meaning difficult to do, taking time an effort.

But Professor Carlin says only rich families were able to afford enough wood to keep a fire going all day.

Anyway, all this talk of food has made me hungry, beth, so what was the answer to your question?

Ah, I asked you what the main ingredient is in the Bangkok stew, and you said vegetables.

And I'm afraid that's wrong. It was, in fact, beef.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in this program about forever foods such as perpetual stew, a pot of stew into which new ingredients are regularly added, allowing the dish to be eaten over a long time.

When food is simmering, it's cooking at a temperature slightly below boiling, so that it bubbles gently.

The verb replenish means to fill something up again.

If something is not strictly true,

it's not completely or entirely true.

When you do an activity such as cooking from scratch, you do it from the beginning without using anything that has already been made.

And finally, if an activity is cumbersome, it's difficult to do and takes a lot of time and effort.

Once again, our 6 min are up.

Remember to visit our website, bbc learning english dot com, where you'll find a worksheet and a quiz related to this program.

And we'll see you again soon for more trending topics and useful vocabulary here at Six Minute English.

Goodbye for now by 6 min English from BBC, learning english dot com.

扫码查看听力音频