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Describe your favorite food that you ate at a traditional festival or at a special event.
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You should say what this type of food is, where you had it, how to make this type of food and explain why you liked it.
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To be honest, I quite like birthday cake.
I know that can take a variety of forms and there's no fixed recipe but the taste of it always appeals to me.
I wonder if that's a combination of the sugar, which I don't have so often, and the kind of joyous atmosphere of a birthday party that makes it so unique.
And evidently I'm not the only one since there are various birthday cake flavored products that you can buy.
So clearly I'm on to something here and other companies have picked up on this.
As the name suggests you obviously have it at birthday parties and you can buy it ready made or you can make your own.
In my country usually close relatives make them or send them.
Either way you eat it on the special day and usually at a birthday party unless for some reason you weren't able to make it to a birthday party or to the birthday party.
Then it's a tradition to save some and give it to the people who couldn't be there.
In terms of the recipe I'd say it's really just a basic sponge cake with jam and lots of icing.
I'm a big fan of the ones which are covered in a layer of icing on the outside since that means more sugar of course.
All you need to do is throw together the ingredients, bake them and then add some candles and voila you're done.
Some stores do personalized ones with pictures and the icing or different shapes which is quite cool.
I'm sure you can do your own as well though I've never tried and not a great baker unfortunately.
It fits well with the atmosphere at my party and well it's not the main thing when it's someone's birthday.
It's obviously a nice thing to have so I'm always really glad to have one or be offered a slice of one.
I even had two at my last birthday come to think of it which makes me sound greedy but there were a lot of people to be honest with you so I don't feel so bad about that.
What about your friends?
Did they like it? I heard no complaints.
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Your favorite food that you ate at a traditional festival.
For example in your country you have a traditional festival, I don't know, could be flower festival, pancake week, beer festival, I don't know, food festival, music festival and you ate some traditional food at this festival or you ate your favorite food at a special event.
Your birthday, your wedding day, a party, I don't know, anniversary, graduation day, any day, okay.
And please choose the food that you can describe.
Don't talk about something very strange that you don't know words about.
Rory here picked a very easy topic, a birthday cake.
Hey. I like birthday cakes, I don't know it doesn't really matter what kind it is, it's always appeal to me.
Birthday cakes appeal to me, means I like birthday cakes, they attract my attention.
And you can say that to be honest I actually quite like birthday cake, yay, and here we don't use any article because I like cake, just in general, I like work, I like love, I like cake, I love cake.
Birthday cakes can take a variety of forms.
And there is no fixed recipe, recipe is the instructions that you follow to cook a cake, to bake a cake and there is no fixed recipe, so no, we don't have one recipe to follow.
In the taste of a cake it appeals to me, it's this combination of sugar, and cream, and fruits and yum yum yum.
You have fruit in the birthday cake?
Yeah, you can, surely strawberries, and yeah.
No, that would ruin it for me.
And birthday cake creates this joyous atmosphere, so the atmosphere of joy at a birthday party.
This makes it very unique.
So I had a birthday cake at my birthday, or for example at my wedding, at this summer festival I went to.
Some people like wedding cakes as well actually.
Mmm, they are like, I think they are a piece of art, so each wedding cake is, you know, could be tailor made with different statues and could be so beautiful and wow.
And tasty as well. And you can say that I made the cake myself or I bought it ready made.
Or I had it made for me, oof, past its voice.
I had it made for me, I paid some people and they made this cake for me, cause I can't possibly cook.
Or bake. And I had it on my special day, on my birthday, at a birthday party.
And you can say that wow, it's a tradition to have a good birthday cake.
You can talk about a recipe.
And for example, I made this cake with jam and a lot of icing on top with cream and sugar.
So it was a sponge cake or a cheesecake or tiramisu, for example.
And all you need to do is throw together the ingredients.
So you mix the ingredients together, like sugar, sugar, more sugar, milk, lava, is this less white thingy.
You bake them and you add some candles.
And voila, you are done.
And you see, here, instead of voila, what else can we say, Rory?
Oh, Bob's your uncle.
Oh, you throw together the ingredients, you bake them, you add some candles.
And Bob's your uncle, the cake is ready.
Some shops, some stores do personalized cakes, here, with pictures.
And you can actually eat this picture.
So you show them a photo and then they make this kind of picture edible so you can eat it.
Amazing. So you can eat a cake with a photo of yourself.
Yum, yum, yum. And you can say, I usually order such cakes.
I'm not a great baker, like I'm not a great cook.
So I can't possibly cook, so I have it made for me.
And the birthday cake fits in well with the atmosphere of a party.
So it fits well, it kind of fits.
It's suitable. And yeah, it's appropriate.
I'm always glad to have a good birthday cake at my birthday party.
And you can say, I usually have two slices.
One slice, a slice of a cake.
Yeah, and what else can we say when we talk about why I liked this food.
So I ate this cake, I liked the flavor, the taste of it, I like the texture.
The feeling, the memories it inspires.
I loved the process of making this food for example, or it was the best food I have ever had in my life.
It took my breath away.
It was like unbelievably tasty, delicious.
And if you talk about a festival, what food do we usually eat at festivals?
Some fast food I think.
Yeah, I'm trying to think of any specific foods for festivals, but I just don't know any at all.
I think like burgers, some are like mini pizza, or some are traditional.
I don't know, hot dogs, homemade pies, for example, could be quite traditional.
Yeah, pies. I think every festival has some pastry, some cakes and pies.
Or maybe you can say that I went to this food festival, pizza festival in Naples, Italy.
Is that actually a thing?
Yeah, it's a thing.
Of course it's a thing, it's Naples, come on.
Held annually in the city of Naples, pizza fest.
Whoa. Are you kidding?
No, I'm just reading from amazingfoodanddrink .com.
That's amazing. And they've had this festival in Naples since 1995, unlimited pizza, okay?
Where? Where do they sell this?
In Naples. Is there like a special place for it?
I feel like I need to go on a holiday.
I think it's just the whole Naples is just full of pizza, live music and people from all over the world.
Oh my god, this is so amazing.
Oh, and in Japan they have ramen show, you know, like ramen soup, ramen noodles.
Yum, yum, yum, oh I love good ramen.
But it may not be like a food festival, you may just talk about music festival, or I don't know, flower festival, summer festival, any festival.
Other countries have such a rich culture of its food compared to mine, honestly.
Like I cannot think of really that many festivals.
No. But I think like in local villages you have many things associated with food.
No, not that I can think of.
Although then again I live in a city so what do I know?
If anyone is listening from Scotland then feel free to correct me, but I do not feel like there are any traditional festivals.
Taste of London festival, come on.
That's in London. That's 600 miles away from here.
Oh Edinburgh food festival.
Oh that's Scottish, huh?
Edinburgh food festival, oh my god, so good.
And Oyster festival, oh.
Seafood festivals? No, come on, lots of festivals.
Oh yeah, we have the sea fest in our bros, why didn't I think of that?
Maria's new employer is the Scottish tourism board.
Okay, so Maria knows more about my country than I do.
No, food -wise. But make sure you do not fall into the same trap.
Find some festival or traditional food and talk about it in your exam.
Bye! I'm hungry, I'm hungry now.
You just ate. Let's go to pizza fest, can you imagine doing a pizza?
Oh my god. Describe your favourite food that you ate at a traditional festival or at a special event.
You should say what this type of food is, where you had it, how to make this type of food and explain why you liked it.
To be honest, I quite like birthday cake.
I know that can take a variety of forms and there's no fixed recipe but the taste of it always appeals to me.
I wonder if that's a combination of the sugar which I don't have so often and the kind of joyous atmosphere of a birthday party that makes it so unique.
And evidently I'm not the only one since there are various birthday cake -flavoured products that you can buy.
So clearly I'm onto something here and other companies have picked up on this.
As the name suggests, you obviously have it at birthday parties and you can buy it ready -made or you can make your own.
In my country, usually close relatives make them or send them.
Either way, you eat it on the special day and usually at a birthday party unless for some reason you weren't able to make it to a birthday party or to the birthday party.
Then it's a tradition to save some and give it to the people who couldn't be there.
In terms of the recipe, I'd say it's really just a basic sponge cake with jam and lots of icing.
I'm a big fan of the ones which are covered in a layer of icing on the outside since that means more sugar, of course.
All you need to do is throw together the ingredients, bake them and then add some candles and voila, you're done!
Some stores do personalised ones with pictures and icing or different shapes which is quite cool.
I'm sure you can do your own as well though I've never tried and not a great baker unfortunately.
It fits well with the atmosphere at the party and well, it's not the main thing when it's someone's birthday.
It's obviously a nice thing to have so I'm always really glad to have one or be offered a slice of one.
I even had two at my last birthday come to think of it which makes me sound greedy but there were a lot of people to be honest with you so I don't feel so bad about that.
What about your friends?
Did they like it? I had no complaints.
