¿A quién no le gusta salir a comer fuera? Pues seguro que muchos envidiaréis a Tim Jacobs, ya que ¡le pagan por comer fuera cuatro veces por semana y hacer una crítica del sabor y del aspecto de la comida!
Echemos un vistazo a este texto, donde se describe el trabajo de Tim. Asegúrate de que te fijas en los phrasal verbs que se usan para describir algunas acciones relacionadas con la actividad que tiene lugar en un restaurante.
Intenta deducir su significado antes de consultar su traducción abajo:
Tim Jacobs is New York’s hottest food critic. He certainly has made a name for himself mostly on his stringent method of judging restaurants and small eateries. Tim is different from other critics in that his approach is based on a set of personal rules he follows once entering a restaurant and sitting down , from how long food is cooking away in the kitchen to how long it takes the chef to chop up his vegetables and meats. Tim eats out 4 times a week in different restaurants based in New York. He locals little diners for a simple fry as well as five star restaurants where he judges on the final plate up and especially the service offered. Tim tells us that even though the food looks and tastes great in many places, he is not able to just tuck into his food as he needs to sample and savour each ingredient before deciding on the quality of the food.
So, for all those chefs who would like to have great reviews for their restaurants published in the paper and to have their guests splash out for a meal,be careful to not let your food boil over in the pot. Make sure you peel off the non eadible bits of skin from vegetables with precision. Slice up the cuts of meat as if you were serving royalty, because you never know when Tim Jacobs might be watching.
¿Cuál es el trabajo de Tim? Exacto, es un crítico gastronómico (food critic).
Ahora veamos los phrasal verbs del texto. ¿Cuántos has acertado?
Vocabulario
Eat out – comer fuera de casa o del trabajo
Sit down – sentarse.
Cook away – cocinar a fuego lento durante mucho tiempo.
Chop up – trocear
Fry up – freír. Un fry-up (noun) es un plato de comida frita (como por ejemplo pollo frito o fideos al estilo asiático)
Plate up – emplatar.
Tuck into – comer con ganas, ponerse las botas
Splash out – gastar mucho dinero en algo, tirar la casa por la ventana.
Boil over – salirse por encima del recipiente un líquido al hervir.
Peel off – pelar
Slice up – cortar en rodajas
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