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Food: Pick Up Spanish While You Pick Up Your Groceries!

Pimsleur Approach • May 15, 2012 • Food & Wine, Travel tips • Comments (0)

Our author found the supermarket difficult at first, but then a great place to build her language skills. When I arrived in Spain ten years ago, one of the most difficult parts of settling into the Spanish way of life was a trip to the supermarket. As a newcomer who didn’t speak the language [...]

Tempted your Taste-buds with Tapas

Pimsleur Approach • May 9, 2012 • Entertainment, Food & Wine • Comments (0)

Manchego cheese dripping in fresh olive oil. Russian salad mixed with sliced of pork roasted in the oven. Pan-fried juicy prawns smothered in oil and garlic. Is your mouth watering yet? These are just some of the succulent bite-sized treats you can expect to find when you sit down to tapas in a traditional Spanish bodega. From very [...]

Curry Is the Spice of Life: Which Is the Right One for You?

Pimsleur Approach • April 24, 2012 • Food & Wine, Language Learning • Comments (0)

If there’s one dish guaranteed to reinvigorate your taste buds, warm your cockles and perform all manner of other heating-up effects on your body, it’s a tasty plate of curry. India is of course the home of curry (the name itself hailing from the Tamil word ‘kari’, meaning ‘sauce’), and the Eastern cuisine has also found a [...]

A Crash Course in Peruvian Cuisine

Pimsleur Approach • April 16, 2012 • Food & Wine, Language Learning, Travel tips • Comments (0)

A trip to Peru is not complete without exploring its diverse culinary pleasures. Geography plays a major role in the diet of Peruvians. The Andean region runs through the center of the country and has an arid climate, but the west borders the Pacific Ocean and the east features thick Amazon jungles. Peruvian farmers still [...]

National Beer Day

Pimsleur Approach • April 6, 2012 • Food & Wine, Global, Language Learning, Traditions • Comments (0)

“He was a wise man who invented beer,” once said Plato. The Greek philosopher may have failed to mention the loss of wisdom that accompanies drinking too much, but he was still onto something. For centuries, beer has been the alcohol of the people; a beverage to nourish and sustain, to enjoy and inspire. April 7 is National [...]