Here's my vocabulary lesson for the day!
Vocabulaire Alimentaire:
water - l'eausparkling water - l'eau gaseuse
orange juice - le jus d'orange
coffee - le café
milk (whole, skim) - le lait (entier, écrémé)
wine - le vin
salt - le sel
pepper - le poivre
basil - le basilic
ginger - le gingembre
cinnamon - la cennelle
oregano - l'origan
parsley - le persil
dill - l'aneth
cilantro - la coriandre
mint - la menthe
vanilla - la vanille
garlic - l'ail
honey - le miel
sugar - le sucre
bread - le pain
eggs - les oeufs
garlic - l'ail
honey - le miel
sugar - le sucre
bread - le pain
eggs - les oeufs
granola - le muesli
yogurt - le yaourtrice cake - la galette de riz
grapes - les raisins
raisins - les raisins secs
apple - la pomme
pear - la poire
peach - la pêche
lemon - le citron
lime - le citron vert
avocado - l'avocat
beet - la betterave
corn - le maïs
lettuce (iceburg, romaine, butter) - la salade (la laitue iceburg, romaine, batavia)
peppers (green, red, yellow...) - les poivrons (verts, rouges, jaunes...)
potato - la pomme de terre
spinach - les épinards
rice - riz
pasta - le pâte
almonds - les amandes
hazlenuts (very popular here) - les noisettes
walnuts - les noix
organic - bio
Words that are the same (or close enough that you can just get away with saying them in English with a strong French accent - haha!):
apricot - l'abricot
banana - la banane
carrot - la carotte
cereal - la céréale
cumin - le cumin
nutella - la nutella
onion - l'oignon
orange - l'orange
quinoa - le quinoa
sauce - la sauce
tofu - le tofu
tomato - la tomate
Things I haven't seen yet, but I want to know how to say as soon as I do see them (haha!):
swiss chard - la bette
brussel sprouts - les choux de Bruxelles
sweet potatoes - le patate douce
Favorites:
peanuts - les cacahuètespeanut butter - le buerre de cacahuète
pineapples - les ananas
grapefruit - le pamplemousse
Anyways..... Today, I'm working on a flyer to advertise myself as a personal chef in some of the more hoity-toity areas around downtown Tours. Ideally, I'll find some rich artists who can pay me handsomely to make delicious organic vegetarian meals for them a couple times a week.
Oh oh - the title - today is the open air market in downtown Tours, so I'm off to go scope out some good spots to post my flyers next week.
That's all for now! More later!
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