Eating Utensils Around the World (1)

Discover the many unique ways people feed themselves

"Don't eat with your hands!" 
When you were young, how often did your mother admonish you for eating with your fingers instead of the proper utensils? She wanted to teach you good table manners. Yet in some parts of the world, it's acceptable to eat with your hands and a variety of other eating implements.

China 
Chopsticks probably originated in China around 1200 B.C. Food was cut into small pieces in order to cook faster, requiring less fuel, and, thus, easy to pick up with sticks. Over the years, chopsticks made their way to Korea, Japan and other Asian nations. The concepts is the same, but the sticks themselves differ in length and shape.

Ethiopia 
Injera, a large, thin and spongy sourdough bread, serves as plate and spoon for diners in Ethiopia. People tear off pieces of the bread, place it over the food, grab a bite with a pinching motion and lift the bread and food into their mouths.

India and Malaysia 
Eating with one's fingers is culturally acceptable in India but only those of the right hand. The left hand is considered dirty. Fingers are also used for eating in Malaysia, with a banana leaf often serving as the plate.


Info Cloud 
Teaching Topic: Adjective Order
形容詞的順序:多閱讀, 就可以了解自然的運用
a large, thin and spongy sourdough bread
number, opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, material
- One stunning, enormous, rectangular, ancient, gray, French, stone castle.
- A great, green dragon.

Grammar Gym
Over the years, chopsticks made their way to Korea, Japan and other Asian nations.
to make one's way to ... :To go in a certain direction or toward a certain place or point
- Aron made his way across the big parking lot to put his things in his car.
- Will all the shoppers in the store, it was hard for Brenda to make her way to the cashier counter.

Language Lab
admonish v. 勸戒, 責備
to tell someone severely that they have done something wrong
- Grace admonished her son for staying up so late.
- Steven was admonished for his tardiness.
admonishment n. 勸戒, 責備
- The kids ignored their parents' admonishment about not swimming and went anyway.

implement n. 工具, 器械;
a tool, especially one used for outdoor physical work
- The museum displayed hunting implements used in the Stone Age.
implement v. 實施, 實行
to take action or make changes that you have officially decided should happen
- The new policy will be implemented next year.

utensil n.
/jʊˈtɛnsəl/
a simple and useful device that is used for doing tasks in a person's home and especially in the kitchen;
a thing such as a knife, spoon etc that you use when you are cooking:

spongy adj. 海綿式的, 吸水式的
soft and full of holes that contain air or liquid like a sponge
- The cake is spongy and moist.
sponge n. 海綿
a piece of a soft natural or artificial substance full of small holes, which can suck up liquid and is used for washing
- Young kids' minds are like a sponge, ready to absorb any information.

pinch v. 夾, 捏, 掐
to press a part of someone's skin very tightly between your finger and thumb, especially so that it hurts:
- My older sister used to pinch me when I was little.
- When I won the lottery, I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
pinch n.
when you press someone's skin between your finger and thumb:
- Joey gave his daughter a playful pinch on her cheek.


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