Food and Catering
English for the catering industry: kitchen equipment, food safety, restaurant service, beverages and products. Most units are built around a professional training video, with listening, gap-fill and vocabulary activities.
Kitchen & food safety
Top Kitchen Essential Tools For Home Cooks
A chef's top 20 kitchen tools, giving advice and hooking your audience
Safety in the kitchen
Clean surfaces, cutting boards, defrosting and cooking temperatures
Handwashing
The steps of proper handwashing for food handlers
Temperature control
The danger zone, and how to cook, hold and cool food safely
How to use thermometers?
Stem, dial and digital thermometers and how to use them
Servsafe exams
Practice tests for the US food safety certificates
Restaurant service
Greeting customers
Welcoming guests, presenting the menu and taking orders
Waiter Training: Steps of Service
From greeting the table to delivering the check
Sections & positions
How the dining room and the service are organized
Tableside Manners
Eye contact, gestures, voice and attitude at the table
Upselling
Suggesting extras and premium items to increase the bill
Banquet setting
Setting up banquet tables step by step
Flambé service
Preparing and serving a flambé dish at the guest's table
Beverages
Serving beverages
Serving soft drinks and long drinks
Serving coffee
The steps of coffee service
Serving tea
Teapots, strainers and steeping times
Serving beer
Pouring draft and bottled beer with the perfect head
Serving wine
Presenting, opening, decanting and pouring wine
Pairing wine
Which wine for which food, and why
Cocktails
38 words we use when talking about making cocktails