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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Bekah.
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In this episode we're discussing a food seasoning that's
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so popular we eat around three quarters of a million tonnes of it a year.
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We're talking about pepper.
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Do you add pepper to your food, Bekah?
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I do, Neil.
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Yes, I think it's an easy way way to add some spice.
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Yeah, I love a bit of pepper.
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I grind pepper onto everything.
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Well, not everything.
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But I do like it.
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Given its popularity, it's surprising that most people know very little about pepper.
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Did you know, for example,
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that peppers are the fruit of vines,
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often growing over 10 metres high?
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Our ancestors would be surprised how little we know.
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From ancient Greece onwards, pepper was prized as the black gold of ingredients,
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and explorers crossed oceans in search of it,
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discovering new continents along the way.
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In this episode, we'll get reacquainted with pepper and learn some useful new words and phrases too.
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And remember, you'll find a transcript for you to read along with us as you listen on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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OK, first I have a question for you, of course, Becca.
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Although it's black pepper you're most likely to see in shops and restaurants in the UK,
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there are hundreds of different varieties worldwide.
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But what is unusual about Phu Quoc,
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a white pepper from Vietnam?
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Does it a make people cry,
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b taste like Parmesan cheese,
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or c cost more than gold?
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Hmm, well I don't think it would be as expensive as gold
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and I kind of want it to taste like Parmesan cheese.
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OK, well we'll find out later in the programme.
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Mathilde Rolinger is the daughter of Olivier Rolinger,
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an award-winning French chef famous for his use of spices.
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While other little girls of her age were sprinkling sugar on their breakfast yoghurt,
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Mathilde was the only girl in Paris sprinkling pepper.
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Today, Mathilde runs the Epis Rollinger spice shop in the Opera area of the city.
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Here, customers can find a huge range of peppers,
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from fruity red Cambodian Kampot pepper to Borneo's Sarawak black pepper with its woody aroma.
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These peppers have strong distinctive tastes.
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But curiously, they enhance rather than overpower the flavor of the food you're eating,
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as Mathilde explained to BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain.
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It will give a kick and transform it,
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but you will still have the savor of the different ingredients.
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It will not disguise the other ingredients,
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but it will push them.
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It's a flavor catalyst.
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We can say in punctuation, like it's an exclamation.
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It's like an exclamation mark.
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Exactly.
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Mathilde says pepper gives food a kick.
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To give something a kick means to provide it with extra stimulation or excitement.
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Pepper also makes flavours more intense.
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Mathilde calls it a catalyst – something that causes another action to start or makes it happen more quickly.
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In fact, she says pepper is like an exclamation mark.
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Saying something is like an exclamation mark means it shows strong emotion
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or excitement – the same thing an exclamation mark does in written punctuation.
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Mathilde's spice shop holds pepper tasting sessions,
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where she explains to customers the origin of her peppers and how they grow,
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changing colour as they harden in the sun.
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Reporter John Lawrenson attended one of these tasting sessions for BBC World Service programme The Food Chain.
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The different colours of pepper,
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though, as Mathilde started to say,
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do not correspond to the different varieties,
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but to the maturity of the peppercorns and what people do to them.
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They're green when they're young,
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black when they're mature and dried,
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red when they're very mature.
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Grey pepper is an industrial creation, not a botanical one.
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Ground to a fine powder,
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it is, says Mathilde, grey dust.
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She's not very keen on that one.
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The colour of pepper is not determined by the variety,
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but by its maturity.
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A food's maturity describes the stage when a food is fully grown and ready to harvest.
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For peppers, this is when they wrinkle and go black.
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Often, a pepper mill is used to grind pepper,
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to crush it into powder by pressing it between two hard surfaces.
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This happens with grey pepper,
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an artificially produced pepper mix which Mathilde is not keen on,
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meaning she doesn't like it.
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We've learned so much about pepper,
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I'll look at it differently the next time I sprinkle some of my food.
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OK Neil, I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question.
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Yes, I asked you what's unusual about Phu Quoc,
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a white pepper from Vietnam.
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I answered B, because I want it to taste like Parmesan cheese.
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Well, you're lucky because it is in fact B.
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It tastes like parmesan cheese.
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Well done.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned,
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starting with the phrase give something a kick,
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meaning to add extra thrill or excitement.
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A catalyst causes something to start or speeds it up.
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If you say something is like an exclamation mark,
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you mean it signifies strong emotion,
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surprise or excitement, just like an exclamation mark does in writing.
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A food's maturity refers to the stage when it's fully grown and ready for harvest.
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To grind food means to crush it into powder by being pressed between two hard surfaces.
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And finally, if you're keen on something,
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you like it and enjoy doing it.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But remember, you can find worksheets,
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quizzes and loads more resources to improve your English on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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you there soon.
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But for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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このレッスンでは、人気の食材であるペッパーについて学びます。ペッパーがどのように料理に風味を加えるのか、様々な種類や歴史についての興味深い情報を聞きながら、新しい単語やフレーズを学びます。リスニングの際には、トランスクリプトを見ながら進めることで、語彙力を強化し、より良い理解を促進します。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- ペッパー (pepper) - 料理に風味を加えるスパイス。
- フルーツ (fruit) - 植物の果実、ペッパーはつるから成る果実です。
- 品種 (variety) - 異なるタイプや種類。
- 強い味 (strong taste) - 強い風味や味わい。
- フレーバー (flavor) - 料理や食材の味。
- 風味を高める (enhance flavor) - 他の材料の味を引き立たせること。
- 異なる材料 (different ingredients) - 料理の中で使用されるさまざまな食材。
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