今日の単語もThe Art of Riceの記事からです。
"Jumping salad is a famous Ilocana dish!" says Buboy, my friend and mentor in the fields. After Visayans and Tagalogs, Ilcanos are the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. Renowned for their folk songs and food, this famous recipe of theirs calls for live river shrimp, calamansi lime juice, vinegar and salt. The result: tiny shrimp jumping around the bowl in a desperate attempt to escape. Not my cup of tea, but it's a light-hearted momont as the others laugh at my squeamishness.
記事の筆者はジャンプしている小エビを躊躇しながら食べた様子ですが、"squeamishness" or "squeamish" の意味を辞書で確認します。
・Collins English Dictionary: .easily frightened ⇒ squeamish about spiders
・Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary: having an unpleasantly nervous or doubtful feeling: I used to be squeamish about eating raw fish.
・Vocabulary.com: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted: “so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow”
４０年近く前ですが、福岡の室見川で白魚の踊り食いを食べた事を思い出しました。魚やイカの活き作りを食べる日本人はこの記事の筆者の様に "squeamish" にはならないでしょう。しかし、これが生きた虫だとどうでしょうか？ 私は子供の頃田舎の信州で生きている蜂の子を食べたことがありますが、青虫を食べろと言われたら "squeamish" になるでしょう。
"Jumping salad is a famous Ilocana dish!" says Buboy, my friend and mentor in the fields. After Visayans and Tagalogs, Ilcanos are the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. Renowned for their folk songs and food, this famous recipe of theirs calls for live river shrimp, calamansi lime juice, vinegar and salt. The result: tiny shrimp jumping around the bowl in a desperate attempt to escape. Not my cup of tea, but it's a light-hearted momont as the others laugh at my squeamishness.
記事の筆者はジャンプしている小エビを躊躇しながら食べた様子ですが、"squeamishness" or "squeamish" の意味を辞書で確認します。
・Collins English Dictionary: .easily frightened ⇒ squeamish about spiders
・Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary: having an unpleasantly nervous or doubtful feeling: I used to be squeamish about eating raw fish.
・Vocabulary.com: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted: “so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow”
４０年近く前ですが、福岡の室見川で白魚の踊り食いを食べた事を思い出しました。魚やイカの活き作りを食べる日本人はこの記事の筆者の様に "squeamish" にはならないでしょう。しかし、これが生きた虫だとどうでしょうか？ 私は子供の頃田舎の信州で生きている蜂の子を食べたことがありますが、青虫を食べろと言われたら "squeamish" になるでしょう。
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