Vocabulary:

to tax the ability to produce cheese to come up with chef to roast unpeeled aluminum foil individually bunch covered pan to come off ...or so = approximately skin mostly to slip right off to include root mess minimal to stick s.t. in the refrigerator the day before olive oil skillet to get the edge off s.t. to cook s.t. all the way through to chop to puree Balkan orange juice there's nothing more beautiful than... to hurry s.t. along bubbling nearly halfway

to dump in walnuts to toast pinch of a toasty edge as long as you... slightly browned pouffy to look for to burn to keep the heat low to cool s.t. off there's no reason to...here into... food processor salad dressingy consistency liquidy to have some crunch amount of dressing to up s.t. a bit to have more appeal than... to give s.o. a break to cry for something green parsley gorgeous earthiness to be complemented by bitter kinda = kind of = somewhat rootiness robustness goat-free

Listening comprehension questions:
1. How do you say "beets" in Chinese?
2. a. What is Bittman assuming in his remark about "goats"? b. What does he mean when he says toward the end of the video, "You can give the goats a break"?
3. How do you cook and peel the beets?
4. Although Bittman says the "mess" is minimal, what do you notice about Bittman's fingers after he handles the beets?
5. a. What does it mean to "take the edge off" the garlic? b. How much should the garlic be cooked? c. Is "garlic" countable or non-countable in English? d. How do you say in English 蒜頭瓣? 一整顆蒜頭?
6. a. What mistake did Bittman make when using geographical adjectives? b. Why do you think he made this mistake? c. What other adjective form is there for this word in English?
7. Why doesn't the garlic need to be chopped?
8. a. What does "healthy" mean in this video? b. "Markian?" c. "Pouffy"? d. "Earthiness"? e. "Rootiness"? f. "Goat-free"?
9. a. How do you prevent the walnuts from burning? b. How do you avoid burning your fingers?
10. Why does Bittman add parsley?
11. How does Bittman pronounce "orange"?
12. a. Have you ever seen beets in Taiwan? b. Have you ever tried beets? If so, how were they prepared? Did you like them?

Full recipe and image source here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/dining/041mrex.html

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