6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.com

Hello this is 6 minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Beth.

Would you like some fried chicken and chips with gravy Beth?

No thanks Neil. I don't really like fried chicken. It's too oily for me.

Okay no problem but maybe you'd like some organic

poulet roti in a tender meat jou with frite. Oh that sounds interesting. What is it?

Well it's French for chicken and chips with gravy. It's a strange fact but the same dish

described using different words can make it sound more delicious, more exotic and more desirable.

Restaurants think carefully about the language they use to describe the food on their menus,

trying to make it sound appealing, tasty or poetic.

Instead of hamburgers, we have gourmet burgers.

It's jieu, not gravy.

And Raspberry Cooley sounds a lot tastier

than Raspberry sauce.

Many of the words used to describe gourmet food, that's food which is higher quality and

more sophisticated than usual, are French.

Coming from a country with a long tradition of high-level cooking called

oat cuisine. But how does the language use to describe food affect our psychology and help restaurants make menus which are both tempting and profitable.

That's what we'll be finding out in this program, along with some useful new vocabulary as well. But first I have a question for you Neil. To

train as a classical French chef takes months as a full-time apprentice, but what is

the name of the most famous cooking school teaching French

oat cuisine? Is it A. Le Caudanble? B, Le Caudan Rouge, or Céééééééééééééééééééééééléélélélélélélélélélélélle I'll reveal the correct answer later.

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