Traditional Food From Around the World! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about traditional food from around the world!

Every country and region around the world has its own traditional foods, but how often do you eat or make these traditional dishes and recipes?

Many cultures have transported their cuisines around the world and some cuisines are so popular that they are eaten all over the world.

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about  traditional food from around the world!

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Conversation Questions: Traditional Food From Around the World!

1. What is a traditional food from your home country or region?

2. What is your favourite traditional food from another country?

3. Do you know any traditional British foods? Have you ever tried them?

4. What is your country or region’s strangest traditional food?

5. How often do you eat or cook traditional dishes?

6. Does your country or region have a traditional drink?

7. What other countries and cultures have influenced the food in your country or region?

8. Which country has the most influential food?

9. When it comes to food, which is better, tradition or innovation?

10. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Traditional
  • following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time without changing
• Region
  • a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country is divided
• Strange
  • unusual and unexpected, or difficult to understand
• Dish
  • food prepared in a particular way as part of a meal
• Culture
  • the way of life of a particular people, esp. as shown in their ordinary behavior and habits, their attitudes toward each other, and their moral and religious beliefs
• Influence
  • to affect or change how someone or something develops, behaves, or thinks
• Influential
  • able to influence someone or something
• Innovation
  • the creating and use of new ideas or methods

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