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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 13 04 October 2009 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cooking is related to the culture of different countries, therefore I want to use this subforum.
Some years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes and therefore I decided to learn cooking. But in the beginning it was a problem, because I had no knowledge, no experience and no intrinsic motivation, so I had many doubts whether I ever could learn it. So I decided that I should find a kind of stimulation for it. And as a stimulation I chose my hobby foreign languages. So already in the very beginning of the whole project I was searching for recipes in foreign languages. Luckily here in Germany you can buy Spanish and Italian cooking magazines, so I bought "Cucina Moderna" for Italian and "Comer y Beber" and "Cocina Ligera" for Spanish, copied some recipes, took my dictionary and studied the language of the recipes to be able to understand them. So every recipe I used, was accompanied with the vocabulary notes I made. And then I started cooking... There was a lot of trial and error involved, the cooking part appeared to be more difficult than the language part. But working from recipe to recipe I made progress. I can recommend cooking with foreign language recipes because: 1. You get a taste of a foreign country's culture and it's authentic. 2. It's very useful for vocabulary expansion 3. Recipes are easy in grammar structure, so already beginners of a foreign language can use them 4. Recipes force you to do very precise language aquisition, because if you don't understand a part of the recipe, the cooking will fail. I started cooking with Spanish and Italian recipes (not German ones!), but meanwhile I have a multilingual cooking books collection, most of them are vegetarian books or books specialised in cooking with vegetables. My multilingual cooking books collection: English: - Sarah Brown's Vegetarian Cookbook - The Vegetarian Cook Dutch: - Het vegetarisch kookboek voor diabeten - Salades French: - La cuisine végetarienne (plus de 700 recettes) Italian: - Il grande libro delle verdure Spanish: (only magazines) Esperanto: - Kiel kuiri sen viando de Klara Hess (unfortunately without any food photos) Turkish: - I am not yet on the language level to use recipes written in Turkish German: - Richtig essen / Gesund leben - Kochen für Diabetiker - Kürbis, Zucchini, Melone & Co. - Das große Buch der Vegetarischen Küche Only one thing is a bit weak in my knowledge: I am not familiar with the vocabulary of meat, sausages and fishes in foreign languages! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 05 October 2009 at 3:53pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7011 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 2 of 13 04 October 2009 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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One of the first books I bought in French was a cookbook. "Cuisiner entre Copains", a
translation of the German book "Basic Cooking" (yes, the German book has a title in English.) When I was in Amsterdam vacationing, I saw the sequel ("Basic Cooking 2") translated into Dutch. I bought it. It turns out this series of cookbooks is available in a number of languages: English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and of course the original German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7376 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 13 04 October 2009 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fasulye, I like very much your post and share your view that cooking from foreign language recipes is an exciting project that lets you into the culture from a pleasant angle. It also offers a material visualization of your linguistic skills- after all if it's good it means you have been able to locate and translate the recipe properly!
I have thousands (literally) of foreign language cookbooks at home now, a whole bookcase of Italian cookbooks for instance. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 13 04 October 2009 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, I would expect such a cooking expert to have a huge amount of cooking books, interesting to know that they are also multilingual. I never translate any recipes, because while cooking I want to assimilate the foreign language and I want to think in it. For example, if I use a Spanish recipe, I copy it, cut it out and write the Spanish - German vocabulary below the Spanish text. When cooking of course I follow the instructions in Spanish. The same goes with the other foreign languages I listed. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 04 October 2009 at 6:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6109 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 5 of 13 04 October 2009 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I prefer to eat foreign food in foreign homes. No way I'd prepare Wigilia myself!
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| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6278 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 6 of 13 04 October 2009 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cooking with foreign language recipes is a lot of fun. I love the little bit of culture you get from cooking and it is a fun way to learn cooking and food related vocabulary. The only cook books that we have in our house are in English but I do have a few websites that I use.
Spanish - Yahoo Cocina - El Cocinero Fiel This blog is nice because he makes instruction videos of how to cook. I can practice listening to Spanish and I like the visual aid of the videos. - Cocinar para los amigos en youtube - Aother Blog with videos Malay - Mesra.net They have a forum too. - Info Resep - Cari Obat Untuk Kesehatan Japanese - Cookpad English - Sweet Lolita Sweets I really shouldn't use this site since it is in English but everything looks so delicious. They have some vegan treats too. This thread makes me feel like cooking now, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 7 of 13 04 October 2009 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a hobby I enjoy as well. Most of my recipes are in English, but I have a fair number in other languages too (especially Italian and German).
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 13 04 October 2009 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
I watched some of these Spanish cooking videos on You Tube. I can understand them easily and it gives me inspiration - that's what I was looking for. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 04 October 2009 at 7:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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