Do you ever wonder why the bakers can’t help but smile as they cook tasty treats in your home’s kitchen? From pre-heating the oven, mixing the dry and wet ingredients, and up until the satisfying “ding” is heard, the baker can feel the atmosphere lighten up and the mood lifted.
Baking can be a form of treatment and empowerment. At first glance, grasping how baking makes you calm down and acts as a source of joy can seem a bit far-fetched. But bakers can see and feel more while they’re baking. Its process is both a science and art. As they bake, they become more focused and hopeful that the effort they’ve poured paid off. This is the reason for their smiles. The beauty and satisfaction of baking can be further revealed when it is done.
Much like any hobby or a creative outlet, baking allows people to express their emotions and creativity. In every part of the world, cooking for someone is considered as a thoughtful gesture–whether you’re welcoming someone in a home, showing a kind gesture, or expressing your gratitude. The desire to share your food with others is an excellent way to build a connection, showing selflessness and love.
It even becomes more heartfelt if you’re serving the whole family. Nothing beats the happiness of seeing your loved ones enjoy the baked treats you’ve worked hard to prepare.
【小题1】According to the passage, how does the baker feel when the baking is done?【小题2】What is the reason for bakers’ smiles?
【小题3】Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Baking helps people to express emotions and creativity while serving the whole family is the opposite.
【小题4】What are some other ways to help build connections with family members? (In about 40 words)
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time.
Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?
Try new things. This may surprise you.
Hopefully that gives you a good start.
A.Make four instead. |
B.Think ahead. |
C.Cooking is a burden. |
D.Ability is easily improved through studying and practicing. |
E.But understanding your food better will help you manage all kinds of cooking. |
F.However, one of the best tools to make cooking worth your time is experimentation. |
G.Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden. |
Whatever your tastes are, it is highly unlikely that many of you are using 3D printers to create your favorite meals. Still, anyone interested in the future of food can find technologists printing out snacks, from steaks to cakes, at the push of a button. Now laser cooking has arrived and it is adding an entirely new layer of gourmet (美食家) taste.
Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab team is hoping to build a digital personal chef to deliver taste, materials, and food to suit individual tastes. So far their experiments with chicken have created laser-cooked examples that have the same flavor as cooking, but use 50 percent fewer ingredients, and have the double content.
“In fact, our two blind taste testers preferred laser-cooked meat to the conventionally cooked samples, which shows the promise for this burgeoning technology,” said project leader James Blutinger. Scientists are working to promote this technology.
Creating software that would allow chefs to make their own designs—a Photoshop of food—is the next step. “We need high-level software that enables people who are not programmers to design the foods they want,” said group leader Hod Lipson. “And then we need a place where people can share digital directions as they share music.”
All of this could well change the way we think about and eat food. High on the list of positives is the fact that printed food can be healthier, lessen the environmental impact of food production—especially red meat—and cut waste.
Global food waste hit almost one billion metric tons in 2021. So future companies that turn food waste into tasty dishes and food decorations—like Natural Machines or Upprinting Food—are a welcome development. As food printing becomes more widespread, we may see instant printed and recycled meals as the dietary solution we were looking for.
【小题1】What is the function of Paragraph 1?A.To show the popularity of 3D printers. |
B.To lead to the topic of laser cooking. |
C.To illustrate the process of cooking meals. |
D.To demonstrate the ease of laser cooking. |
A.Promising greatly. | B.Growing rapidly. |
C.Shining hugely. | D.Spreading quickly. |
A.Create a Photoshop of food. | B.Design recipes to suit individual tastes. |
C.Build an automated digital personal chef. | D.Turn food waste into tasty dishes. |
A.How to create your favorite meals. | B.What laser printing meant to our life. |
C.The global food waste problem. | D.The laser cooks meals. |
A short cooking video posted by a netizen on TikTok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag “Chinese food”, the video not only showed off the chief’s superb skills in making Chinese dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China’s unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200, 000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chinese dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. “Even the most basic Chinese dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to have sharp eyes, but also valuable experience,” said Wang, an experienced Chinese chef in Guangzhou.
Chinese cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include “odd food” challenges, traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
“I have been a fan of Chinese food ever since my Chinese friend cooked me di san xian at university. I was surprised by the dish’s taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me because I noticed we share similar cooking skills,” said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
“I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. These videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying ‘I want to try it’, I felt these videos can narrow the gap between the two cultures,” said Mr. Bear, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chinese cooking.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “omnivore” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A.people eating meat. | B.people eating diverse food. |
C.people eating strange food. | D.people eating vegetables. |
A.common and dear. | B.expensive and delicious. |
C.similar and disconnected. | D.special and familiar. |
A.He is an expert determined to become a Chinese chef. |
B.The majority of his fans tasted the food he cooked. |
C.His videos make a difference to cultural communication. |
D.His roommate encouraged him to cook Chinese food. |
A.Chinese cooking has become popular among young vloggers. |
B.advanced technology plays a great part in modern society. |
C.online videos can make young people internationally famous. |
D.master-level Chinese dishes are attracting more foreign fans. |
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