This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 1636, hats off to the chef, how to compliment someone's

cooking in English. Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times.

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subscribe. When you attend a work or social gathering and you love the food, what can you say?

Today, get high level native English phrases to say that the food is great to build a stronger

relationship at work or in your social life.

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What's going on Michelle? Hey Lindsey, not too much, not too much, how are you?

Excellent. Oh my god, today is September 1st. It is time to get down to business, Michelle,

when it comes to our English. Yes, yes, yes, I know. This is like kind of that, you know, it's like

this school year starting off like every, you know, that feeling. It's like a different, it's not

new year, but it's like a different feeling. Mm-hmm. It's very fresh. It's very fresh.

Fresh time. Yeah, it's a fresh time. Have you been to any dinner parties or anything recently

where someone's cooked, or I guess you're with your parents, so maybe they've made you a meal?

A little bit, but over the summer, I went to a barbecue at a friend's house, not your typical barbecue.

She really, she cooked this incredible chimichurri sauce with steak, and it was just like, wow,

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