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Everybody Eats, How Many Cooks?

Talking about food could be a fun and nonthreatening topic for anyone to strike up a conversation with others. Especially, for me, an immigrant who lacks knowledge of cultural insights, jokes and references, when awkwardness falls upon me during a social gathering, I try to steer the conversation into food and cooking, to cover up my inadequateness. Often, it is an interesting topic for students to be engaged in the classroom early on as well. Everybody LOVES to talk about their favorite foods and restaurants! However, for teens, how many likes to cook? When my students reach Intermediate Mid level...

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