Shadowing-Übung: Why 1.5 billion people eat with chopsticks | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz It is such a sort of instrumental part of our cooking vocabulary, in terms of the utensils.
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Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz It is such a sort of instrumental part of our cooking vocabulary, in terms of the utensils.
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And it was like, that's interesting, there are people who live without chopsticks.
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[Small Thing.] [Big Idea.] Chopsticks are a pair of two long sticks used to eat things with one hand.
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Holding chopsticks is a little bit like holding a pencil, except that you have two of them and you move them together in a pincer movement.
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Most of them are made out of wood. They're also made out of plastic, bamboo, jade, gold, silver and even ivory, though I think that's not so cool anymore.
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Chopsticks are really well designed for eating small bits of food.
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They're good for picking up noodles.
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If you're skilled, you can eat rice, pick up dumplings, pieces of meat.
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There are some no-nos with chopsticks.
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You should not use the chopsticks like drumsticks, which I know is tempting.
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You don't want to stick chopsticks into a bowl of rice face-up.
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And the reason for that is it actually looks like a bowl of incense, so it sort of echoes death.
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Chopsticks are used in a huge portion of the world, across much of Asia, about 1.5 billion people are covered in the chopsticks sphere.
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Different cultures have slightly different variations of chopsticks.
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Chinese chopsticks will tend to be long and round, Korean chopsticks are flatter and often made of metal and Japanese chopsticks tend to be round and very, very pointy.
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While chopsticks are actually really commonplace in American society today, there was definitely a time in the late 1800s where this idea that Asian men, because they ate rice with sticks, were of a different quality than American men, who ate proper meat with a knife and fork.
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But when China and the United States began their diplomatic engagement in the 1970s, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, had to practice eating with chopsticks.
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What's been really interesting to see is that as Asian cuisine has moved from the East into the West, chopsticks have become part of the experience.
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There's evidence of chopsticks as long ago as the Shang dynasty, which is about 3000 years ago, and they loved tripods during the Shang dynasty.
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So when you cook with these big tripods, chopsticks were actually really useful, because it was a way for you to stir and to reach without getting burned as the water was boiling in these really big pots.
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Chinese culture has knives and has forks.
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It uses them in many cases for cooking.
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But in terms of like what moved into the dining room, it was the chopsticks.
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One of the things about Asian cooking is that it often comes in very small pieces.
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And I think part of that has to do with the fact that it's actually a lot more energy-efficient to cook little pieces quickly.
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But also, then you don't have to cut them.
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So you have a circular influence, where the type of food that is cooked allows people to use chopsticks, and then the fact that you have chopsticks influences the food that you can cook.
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But at the same time, chopsticks reflect the communal nature of eating food.
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You'll have these dishes that you put in the middle, it's very family style.
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You go in with your chopsticks, and you put it on your rice, and then you eat individually.
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There's actually a famous sort of legend where everyone has these really, really long chopsticks, like way too long for them to feed themselves.
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And so in hell, everyone starves, because they can't pick up food and put it in their mouths.
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But in heaven, people take the same chopsticks and then feed each other.

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Wichtige Vokabeln & Phrasen

  • chopsticks - Essstäbchen
  • cooking vocabulary - Kochvokabular
  • pincer movement - Zangengriff
  • energy-efficient - energieeffizient
  • communal nature - gemeinschaftliche Natur
  • diplomatic engagement - diplomatische Engagement
  • family style - Familienstil
  • rice - Reis

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