The New Science of Cooking 科学与艺术的厨房
Molecular▼ gastronomy▼ sounds like a science-fiction horror movie title, but it is changing theway we look at and prepare our food.
分子料理听起来像是科幻恐怖电影的标题,但它正在改变我们看待及准备食物的方式。
Foodscience—as its name suggests—is a study devoted tounderstanding the industrialproduction of food. This includes research into the safety, preservation, andchemical composition▼ of food. As a result, the variety and amount of food has greatlyincreased. Until molecular gastronomy started introducing new ways to apply chemistry and physics to food preparation, how people prepare food changed very little fromthe ways our ancestors didit for thousands of years.
Before theinvention of the microwave oven, food all around the world was prepared thesame way over countless generations. The onlyways to cook food were by using heat from direct or indirect exposure tofire—such as baking, roasting, frying, or barbecuing—or from heated water—suchas boiling or steaming. In stark▼ contrast, the modern molecular gastronomy kitchen looks like across between a kitchen and a science lab. That is because food undergoes preparationand treatment that requires great precision, as wellas technical tools which are unavailable intraditional kitchens. Molecular gastronomy experiments with processes appliedto food that attempt to extract flavorsand change the textures▼ of food. This may sound like a Frankenstein approach to cooking,but it relies on goodold 100% natural ingredients.Everything used is from biological sources,whether plant or animal.
What is theresult of this intense interestin and experimentation▼ with food? Some very surprising dishes! Transparent▼ ravioli▼, mangopurée▼ servedas a sphere, and caviar▼ madefrom olive oil are just a few out-of-the-box▼ ideascreated in molecular gastronomy kitchens. Only time will tell whether moleculargastronomy is just a fad or the wave of the future.
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1. Whatis the main purpose of this article?
(A) To give a history of the development of molecular gastronomy.
(B) To detail recipes used in molecular gastronomy cooking.
(C) To point out the differences between traditional and moleculargastronomy kitchens.
(D) To explain a new style of science-based cooking.
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2. Accordingto the article, why has the amount of food increased greatly in modern times?
(A) Food science has focused on the production of more food.
(B) The purpose of molecular gastronomy has been to increase the foodsupply.
(C) With the increase in restaurants worldwide, more food is beingproduced.
(D) Natural ingredients and food sources are more plentiful13 thanman-made ones.
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3. Whyare microwave ovens mentioned in the second paragraph?
(A) It was the first invention of the molecular gastronomy kitchen.
(B) It was the first new way to cook food in the modern age.
(C) Microwave cooking developed from molecular gastronomy cooking.
(D) Like molecular gastronomy cooking methods, heat is not necessary ina microwave.
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4. Whatseems to be the writer’s opinion of molecular gastronomy cooking?
(A) It is just a passing fad.
(B) In the future, only microwave cooking will be used.
(C) In the future, all cooking will be done by molecular gastronomymethods.
(D) Its future is uncertain.
1. preservation n. 保存,保护
The preservation of these old books is worthwhile.
保存这些古老典籍是很值得的。
2. ancestor n. 祖先,祖宗
3. generation n. 一代;世代
4. exposure n. 接触;暴露(常与介词 to 并用)
衍: exposevt. 使接触;使暴露
expose A to B 使 A 接触 B;使 A 暴露在 B 中
Exposure to radiation can lead to cancer.
暴露在辐射线下可能会致癌。
*radiationn. 辐射
We exposed our son to English at an early age, and now he is fluent inthe language.
我们让儿子在很小的时候就接触英文,现在他的英语很流利。
*be fluentin... 说……(语言)很流利
5. undergo vt. 经历;遭受(三态为:undergo,underwent, undergone。)
Sherry looked 20 years younger because she had undergone plasticsurgery.
雪莉因为做了整型手术,看起来年轻了二十岁。
*surgery n. 手术(不可数)
6. precision n. 精准,准确
衍: withprecision 精准地,精确地
This robot is able to carry out the task with precision.
这台机器人可以十分精确地执行任务。
7. unavailable a. 得不到的;不能利用的
反: availablea. 可获得的,可买到的
This seasonal fruit is only available from March to May.
这种季节性水果只有在三到五月才买得到。
8. extract vt. 萃取,提炼;取出
衍: extract Afrom B 从 B 萃取∕提炼出 A
We can extract cooking oil from sunflower seeds.
我们可以从葵花子中提炼出食用油。
9. ingredient n. 食材,原料
My mother bought all the ingredients to make egg tarts at thesupermarket.
我妈在超市里购买了制作蛋塔所需的各项材料。
*tart n. 塔(点心)
10. biological a. 生物的;生物学的
衍: biologyn. 生物学
biologist n. 生物学家
biologically adv. 生物学上
11. intense a. 强烈的,激烈的
衍: intensivea. 密集的;加强的
The intense heat of summer in southern China is sometimes unbearable.
中国南部夏天的酷热有时让人受不了。
I enrolled in a three-month intensive English language program.
我报名了为期三个月的英语密集课程。
*enroll in... 报名∕登记(参加)……
12. sphere n. 球体
13. plentiful a. 丰富的
Apples and grapes areplentiful at this time of year.
每年这时节盛产苹果和葡萄。
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