VIP Class Notes (Mike)

 What’s Your Take on Vegetarianism/Veganism?

Vocabulary

espionage (n) spy 

bollocks : nonsense/bullshit (British English)

scrumptious: delicious

palatable: delicious

stale: the opposite if fresh, old

expiration date 

gross/sick/disgusting/nasty/weird

soup: thin stew

stew: thick soup 

broth: pure liquid

chowder: 海鲜浓烩杂汤

dairy products: milk/cheese related food

mung beans (n) green bean

slaughter house (n) a place where where animals are killed for their meat

muscular (adj.) – muscle
ie. How can a vegetarian be muscular?

singular – plural 

fungus – fungi
octopus – octopi
cactus – cacti
stimulus – stimuli

be comprised of: consist of 

July

August 

Sept: 7

Oct: 8

thorny 

bodybuilder (n) 

Peter Singer: Animal Liberation

humane
inhumane

anti-biotics

bacteria/virus/fungus

Pronunciation

protein 

Read and summarize this paragraph

China—Shanghai in particular—is a very different looking place every time I go. And I believe that the world as a whole, largely because of what’s happening in China, is going to be a very different looking place. If you live in New York (as I do)  and think you live in the most modern, sophisticated city in the world—or even at its center—Shanghai can come as a rude surprise. In spite of its nominally communist system, it is the most go-go, unfettered, money and status mad, materialistic place on earth. Its skyline alone is confirmation that money talks loudest. In no other city could you build the world’s largest, tallest and ominously curved phallus—stick it right up into the clouds like a giant “FUCK YOU!” to the world and not have trouble with the NIMBYs.

— Anthony Bourdain