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TOPICS

Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general,

expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction

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GLOSSARY

chef – a professional cook; a person who has studied cooking and whose job is

to cook

* That restaurant just hired a new chef, and his desserts are incredible!

column – a newspaper article on a specific topic, sometimes written by the same

author every day, week, or month

* I enjoy reading the travel column each Sunday.

to master – to become very good at doing something; to become an expert at

doing something

* How long did it take you to master playing the piano?

recipe – written instructions for cooking or baking something; written instructions

for making a certain type of food

* This recipe for bran muffins calls for one cup of raisins.

cookbook – a book that contains many recipes for cooking or baking foods

* Grandma’s favorite cookbook has hundreds of recipes for cookies.

to spoof – to take something that is serious or important and make it seem silly;

to make fun of or to mock something serious

* Spaceballs is a funny movie that spoofs Star Wars .

to kick (something) up a notch – to take something to the next level; to make

something more intense, important, or interesting

* They often bet small coins while playing poker, but last weekend they kicked

their game up a notch and started betting with five-dollar bills.

fusion – a combination of different types of food; a combination of different styles

of food from different parts of the world

* A new restaurant that serves Cuban-Thai fusion just opened in downtown

Springfield.

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anthropologist – a person who studies people and their cultures and societies

* The anthropologist spent more than six years living with a community in the

Amazonian jungle.

intimate – very close and personal; with a close relationship

* Becky and Francine are very intimate friends. They tell each other everything.

generic – related to a large group of things, without being specific and without a

brand name that shows something is made by a particular company

* “Digestion problems” is a generic term that can mean many different illnesses.

general – overall; not specific; not detailed

* The book is about the U.S. Civil War in general and it doesn’t have very many

details about the battles.

prophecy – a statement about what will happen in the future, often related to

religion or magic

* This book contains prophecies made by a man who lived in the 1600s.

prediction – a statement about what will probably happen in the future

* President Kennedy made a prediction that humans would be able to walk on

the moon.

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

Classic Bestselling Cookbooks

Many Americans enjoy cooking and trying new recipes. They often buy

cookbooks for “inspiration” (ideas and motivation for doing something). Some of

these cookbooks are “fads” (things that are very popular for a short period of

time), but other cookbooks have become “classic” (very popular and very well

known) “bestsellers” (books that sell many copies).

One of the classic bestselling cookbooks is The Joy of Cooking . It has “been in

print” (it continues to be published) since 1936, selling more than 18 million

copies. The cookbook has a lot of basic information about the selection of fruits

and vegetables, cooking “techniques” (specific ways to do something), and lists

of “equipment” (small machines) and “utensils” (hand-held objects) that every

kitchen needs, as well as many recipes for traditional American foods. A similar

cookbook, The Joy of Baking , is all about baking cakes, pies, cookies, and more.

The Betty Crocker series is another classic bestselling cookbook. Betty Crocker

is a “fictitious” (imaginary, not real) character who was created by a food

company. When people wrote to the company asking for advice about baking,

the company signed the letters with the name of Betty Crocker. Later, Betty

Crocker had a radio cooking show, and now that name is on many food products,

as well as a series of cookbooks.

Finally, The Frugal Gourmet has become another classic bestselling cookbook.

A man named Jeff Smith “hosted” (was the main character) on a cooking show of

the same name, and also published a series of cookbooks in the 1980s and

1990s. While The Joy of Cooking and Betty Crocker focus more on traditional

home-style foods, The Frugal Gourmet has recipes for “gourmet” (very fancy)

foods that can be prepared “frugally” (without spending very much money).

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 125.

This is the English Café episode 125. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming

to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles,

California.

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improve your English even faster.

On this Café, we’re going to talk about celebrity chefs – famous chefs in the

United States, who they are, and why they’re famous. We’re also going to talk

about personal space for Americans. People have different ideas about how

close you should be to other people, and what that means in terms of your

relationship. We’ll talk about how Americans see their own personal space. And

as always, we’ll answer a few of your questions. Let’s get started.

Our first topic is celebrity chefs. A “chef” (chef) is another name for a “cook,” a

person who cooks. Usually a chef is someone who works in a restaurant. The

chef is usually the most important cook – the main cook. In some restaurants –

big restaurants – they have different chefs that cook different kinds of meals, or

different kinds of food. For example, some restaurants have what’s called a

“pastry chef.” “Pastry” (pastry) is sweets, things like doughnuts and rolls and

croissants; these are considered pastry.

In the United States, especially in the last 20 years or so, there have been a

couple of famous chefs who have had television programs. For some reason,

television shows about cooking became very popular in the 1990s. I want to start

talking about, however, the most famous celebrity chef in the last 50 years, and

that would be Julia Child.

Julia Child died in 2004. She was very famous in the 1960s and 70s. She

actually became famous in the early 1960s, when she published a “cookbook,” a

collection of recipes. “Recipes” are instructions on how to cook something; a

“cookbook” is a book of recipes. Julia Child published a book called Mastering

the Art of French Cooking . To “master” something means to become an expert,

to do very well at something.

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French cooking was not that popular in the United States before the 1960s. Julia

Child helped popularize – helped make more popular – French cooking in the

U.S. To “popularize” is to make more popular. She published cookbooks, then

she had a television program called The French Chef . She was not French, but

she tried to explain to people French cooking. She wrote articles in magazines;

she had a column in The Boston Globe newspaper. A “column” is when a writer

has a story at a regular schedule – every two days or every week. She had a

cooking column in The Boston Globe .

She was so famous that in 1966 she was on the cover of Time magazine, the

most popular news magazine in the United States. She also became famous in

part because of a comedy program called Saturday Night Live . Back in the late

1970s, when I was in high school, there was someone on this comedy show who

would spoof Julia Child’s television programs. To “spoof” (spoof) means to make

fun of. So, he would act like he was Julia Child, and make fun of her. Julia Child

continued to be popular in the 1980s and the 90s until her death in 2004. She is

certainly the most famous celebrity chef in America that most Americans my age

would remember.

In the last 15 years, there have been other chefs that have become famous and

have their own television programs. In fact, in the United States there is an

entire channel called “The Food Network” that shows cooking shows 24 hours a

day, so you can watch and learn how to cook the entire day, if you’d like. Some

of these celebrity chefs have become famous with their own television programs,

almost all of them have published their own cookbooks, and most of them own

restaurants in some place.

The most famous one, recently, has been Emeril Lagasse. People usually just

call him by his first name, Emeril. Emeril had a very popular TV program on The

Food Network. He became famous for his loud and very enthusiastic way that he

would try to present the recipes to show people how to cook.

There were two expressions that he always used that became famous in pop

culture in the 1990s. One of the expressions was “kick it up a notch” (notch). In

general, the expression “to kick something up a notch” means to do something

faster, at a higher level, with more energy, more excitement perhaps. In terms of

Emeril’s television program, “to kick it up a notch” usually meant to make the food

a little more spicy – to make the food a little more flavorful. The other expression

that he made popular was “bam” (bam). “Bam” is something that you would say

when you do something suddenly. He used it whenever he would put a certain

“ingredient,” a certain kind of food into his meal – into the dish he was preparing.

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