雅思口语考试topic食物类，我们在描述的时候也应尽量选取较为简单的菜肴去描述，而且最好是西式菜肴。中式菜肴通常以种类繁多，烹饪复杂而著名。有时要把这样的菜介绍清楚已属不易。
这一类考题有以某一道菜为主要考点的：
◆ How do you cook this dish?
◆ Why is it your favorite dish?
也有以一顿丰盛的菜肴为主要考点的：
◆ What did the meal consist of?
◆ Was it made for a special occasion?
◆ Why was the meal so special?
还有一些考题问的是一些相关的信息，比如烹饪者、烹饪地点、共同进餐的人和喜欢烹饪或这道菜的理由。
◆ Who cooks your meal?
◆ Who do you often eat meals with?
◆ Where did you cook it or eat it?
◆ Why did you enjoy it?
我们先跟该书的主编沙莎老师，一起来看一道关于菜肴烹饪的话题卡：
Describe A Dish
Describe one of your favorite dishes.
You should say:
From whom you learnt to cook it.
How this dish is cooked.
Who you usually cook for.
And explain why you enjoy it.
{原创范例} I am not much of a cook, but I do cook one dish well—steamed fish. It is my mom’s specialty. When I moved out of my parents’ house, I missed it so much that I asked Mom to teach me how to cook it. And now I can make restaurant quality steamed fish.
在这段话的开头用了让步的手法，先表明我不太会做菜，以突出我做清蒸鱼非常拿手。这个话题中会涉及到一些烹饪菜肴一类的较为专业的词汇，大家可能比较陌生。这段中specialty表示“拿手菜”。
{原创范例} Cooking steamed fish is super easy. But to get the most out of this recipe, make sure the fish you use is live, at least fresh. You also need ginger, spring onions, mushrooms and chili. First, clean the fish, cut the stalks of spring onions to almost 2 inch lengths, slice ginger and cut up mushrooms and chilies.
在这里recipe指“食谱”，而其中用到的一些动词cut…to almost 2 inch lengths, slice, cut up都是菜肴制作中较为常用的，大家需要特别注意。
