おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
ラオス料理店の紹介記事。
サムネがおいしそう…野菜大事…。アジア系の野菜料理って、チンゲンサイ炒めとか米なしで主食にできるメニュー多くて好き。
pungent
意味 〈味· においなどが〉刺激性の, 刺すような
At times spicy and bitter, salty and pungent, herbaceous and sour — Lao food is intensely delicious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
medium
意味 ＜情報伝達などの＞ 媒体, 媒介 (物), メディア; 手段, 方法 ＜of, for＞
Her medium is Instagram, and the subject of her obsession is thum mak hoong — Lao papaya salad — a synthesis of many precise flavors including concentrated black crab paste, intensely sour roasted hog plum and the powerfully fishy, unfiltered fermentation known as padeak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
あぁー調べたことある…メディアだ…このスペルだから「ミディアム」の意味しか前回調べた時も出てこなかった…悔しいw
exaggerate
意味 〈人が〉〈事· 物〉を誇張する, おおげさに言う [考える]
Ms. Phengsy, who lives in the South Bay area, isn’t exaggerating, and her devotion to Lao flavors, which she thinks have been unappreciated outside her community for too long, is fierce.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
treacle
意味 (英) 糖蜜 ((米)molasses).
In one clip, she might call your attention to the smell that lingers on her fingers after mixing the thick, treacle-dark dressing. In another, she’ll focus on the music of the dish: the rhythmic scrape of a metal spoon against the mortar, followed by the juicy thump of the pestle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
SNSでの見せ方がうまいのって、現代だと最優先スキルよね…。
最近Instagramの良さが少し分かってきました。tiktokよりはまだこっち寄りだわw
obscure
意味 (世に) よく知られていない, 無名の (unknown)
In his excellent 2019 cookbook, “Hawker Fare,” the Bay Area chef James Syhabout writes about how his Lao mother worked in a Thai restaurant when she arrived in the United States. Later, she opened her own Thai restaurant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
Why not a Lao restaurant? For many Lao immigrants establishing a new business in a new country, the worry was that a Lao menu would be too obscure for American diners — too bitter, too spicy, too fishy, too salty. In short, too risky.
確かにラオス料理知らないからな…タイ料理店でラオスの方々が働いてるって日本でもあるあるなんだろうな。
herbicide
意味 [C][U] [生物] 除草剤 ((よりくだけて)weed (-)killer) .
Because it wasn’t just the food culture of Laos, but everything about the country, that was unfamiliar to most Americans. This, despite the deep involvement of the United States there during the Vietnam War — the American military dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos beginning in the late 1960s, and illegally sprayed more than 600,000 gallons of poisonous herbicide into its fields.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
preserve
意味 （ありのままに）〈建物· 場所など〉を保存する; 〈物〉を保護する, 守る
Thousands of families fled then, during the Lao Civil War, and after it when a Communist government came to power. Many escaped by crossing the Mekong River, arriving at refugee camps in Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia. They both revised and preserved their foodways in these in-between spaces, within Lao immigrant communities, around Lao Buddhist temples and at home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
好きで融合したわけじゃないのね…ぼんやりと仏教国のイメージだったけど村上春樹の旅行記をまた読み返してみよう。タイトルもろラオスって書いてあるけどエッセイなのですぐ内容忘れちゃうのよねw
full-blown
意味 [[名]の前で]本格的な, 全面的な〈問題など〉; 症状の進行した, 末期の〈病気など〉.
“At first, I didn’t have the courage to do full-blown Lao food,” said Ms. Luangrath. But later, she added Lao dishes to the menu and renamed her restaurant Padeak, after the chunky Lao fish sauce.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/dining/lao-food-cuisine.html
