Part 4. Listen and Relax.
Keywords
barbecue, recipe, picnic style.
Vocabulary
barbecue, grill, charcoal, caveman, recipe, spice, rib, potluck, macho.
Here's a program about barbecue, Listen and enjoy.
Hi, remember we spent all day preparing that barbecue? Well, the time is coming. It's evening?
Yeah, and our guests are coming soon. I hope you're hungry. It reminds me of growing up in Texas.
In Texas, they're vey famous for barbecue.
They're very serious about barbecue.
And one thing that's interesting about grilling and barbecue is that it's one form of cooking that men like to do.
In the west, in the US in particular, a lot of men don't cook at all.
But oh, in the summer, they'll go out and cook on the grill, they'll light the charcoal with fire and they'll put the meet out there, just like they were cavemen.
And of course the women are usually setting the table and making the salads and helping a lot. But the men like to say, I made the barbecue.
And they have special recipes, they have certain spicy chili or very special sauce.
Elyn, what do you think about all the different kinds of sauces there are?
I think the unique thing about a barbecue is that no matter where you go in America, they'll have a different recipe.
So in some parts, they'll have tomatoes in the sauce, and in some parts, they wouldn't dream of having tomatoes in the sauce.
It's true. Maybe they just have vinegar and spices.
And in other places, they like to use wood, they like to use wood to grill the meat with.
And in other places, they like to use charcoal, charcoal is wood that's been cooked until there's no more smoke.
Almost every cookbook like this American cookbook, has a section on just preparing your vegetables and meats to go on to the grill, and how you should do it carefully, so that it doesn't burn your food.
This book has...this book has several pages of recipes, and one of the famous ones that they have is ribs, the ribs of the cow, and they especially like to cook ribs at a barbecue.
Sometimes they like a whole pig, don't they? If you have enough people, say, forty people, you could roast a huge lamb, or a whole pig or some large piece of meat, and that would serve a big crowd.
Some barbecues don't even use a table.
Everyone goes to a park, say, on American Independence Day, and you might have hundreds of people come, and everyone brings food.
It's potluck, remember that expression?
And maybe someone will make a huge piece of meat, and people will all sit on the ground, and that's picnic style barbecue.
And then maybe after dinner, if they like it, they might have a square dance.
Yeah, music or dancing, singing perhaps, depends on if you're sitting on the ground in a park or at a table in someone's backyard.
Whatever, a barbecue is supposed to be fun, I hope it is tonight.
Well, so you'll get a chance to see this evening. We got a man to do the barbecue.
So you need to know the right words if you're coming to a barbecue.
If you come to a barbecue and you see the... the guy there grilling the meat, you can say oh, macho!
What do you like best about the barbecue?
Oh, I like salads, they are good for you and you don't have to cook them. OK.
Now, you're from Britain, what's it like in Britain when you have a barbecue?
Well, in Britain, when we have a barbecue, we always have to watch the sky to see if it's going to rain.
How about you? You....I know you like salads.
Tony said you did. Yeah. What do you like best about the barbecue?
Well, I like the barbecue, because someone else always does the cooking.
Well, our barbecue is done, and we are all very full. We've eaten a lot, haven't we?
Yes, we have. It's been really great. Thanks. Thank you for a lovely barbecue.
It was our pleasure, we had a great time. But now it's really starting to rain, I'm afraid we have to clean up.