Open your eyes back to nature

[The Great Big Story]

Culinary Artist, James Gop, has dedicated his life to embracing local foods, open fires and the vast beauty of the Berkshire Mountains. Mother Nature, to Gop, is a giant grocery store full of endless possibility. To celebrate the chef’s refreshing take on what it means to be an artist/explorer/chef in today’s world, Coors Light is enabling James’ next masterpiece: a sumptuous feast that showcases his top dishes, using hand-picked ingredients from the surrounding flora and fauna.

Follow James on   HERE

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video

• Walk around in the woods
• Curious nature
• Culinary artist
• More often than not
• Later this week
• Building a menu
• Native species
• The growing seasons are short
• He never stops
• It’s very inspiring
• Continue to be better
• My artistic expression
• A seventeen-hour day
• Sauté them in a lot of butter and a lot of salt
• Little red berries
• To forever change your lives today
• Being here, present
• Weeds and grasses
• An edible grocery store
• Exposing them to something they’ve never seen
• Foraged pine bark
• Whole-wheat flour
• Making time
• Be part of this experience
• Open your eyes back to nature
• Giving us the opportunity to tell our story

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Cook with your soul and spirit

great big story

Mexico’s Zapotecs are an indigenous community living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before Spanish colonization, Zapotecan civilization was a thriving epicenter of food, culture and tradition. Today, chef Abigail Mendoza is on a mission to keep those traditions alive by cooking the food of her ancestors. All the dishes she cooks—including pre-hispanic mole, stuffed chiles with Oaxaca cheese and atole—are made using ancient techniques. Recognized by the world’s best chefs for her dishes, she hopes to keep the food of her ancestors alive and thriving.

Vocabulary chunks to learn from video

• An indigenous group
• Pre-colonial era
• Keep their traditions alive
• She has become world-famous
• Keeping the traditional ways of cooking alive
• A Corn-based sauce
• She cooks chilies directly on coals
• Foods that were eaten thousands of years ago

Map of Oaxaca :

3 000 Villages to discover

 

visit Greece

Bustling cities, small traditional villages, breathtaking nature, rich culture, archaeological sites, mesmerizing islands, culinary treats and recipes form a fascinating destination. Enjoy Greece all year round, as each season has something special to offer. Uncover Greece’s hidden treasures   HERE

Dive into the oven

Great Big Story

Shotis puri is a traditional Georgian bread, usually served with every meal. Baking the bread, however, can get a little extreme. For a new baker interested in venturing into the world of shotis puri, be prepared to dive headfirst … literally. The bread is baked in a tonir—a deep, clay oven onto which the unleavened dough is stuck. After the bread has been baked, bakers must dive headfirst into the hot, hot oven to retrieve their goods. No one knows the process better than Skhirtladze Davit. For the past 16 years, he’s been enduring the heat, all for the love of bread.

Vocabulary Chunks to learn from video :

• A bread maker
• In the making of this video
• As you can probably gather
• Armenia
• Not your average bread maker
• Bread oven
• It translates to bread
• It is essential
• Turned up to the highest level
• A salt based liquid
• As close to the fire
• As if diving into
• Is just a part of the job
• Intense enough
• The end result
• With a salty twist
• That is eaten on special occasions

Would you stay in this Hotel On Wheels?

Daniela Carneiro and Eduardo Ribeiro created the Truck Surf Hotel, a converted Mercedes-Benz truck that transforms into rooms and serves as a hotel on-the-go. The truck hotel travels across Portugal during the summer and Morocco in the winter. The hosts wanted to share their love of the outdoors with people and make traveling convenient, accessible, and comfortable.

Book your next surf vacation HERE

Follow The Truck Surf Hotel on     HERE

Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• We used to travel together
• A camper-van
• Chasing the best waves
• Explore different places
• Surf the best waves
• The rooms for our guest
• A double room
• Bunk beds
• We made our dream come true
• Close to the ocean
• Lifestyle
• Horse riding, yoga
• Visiting the town
• Experience the culture

this is our Greece

[visit Greece]

3 words at a time

lonely planet

In a country where addresses are scarce, signs are few and far between and most of the country’s pasturelands remain unaddressed, Mongolia has proved notoriously difficult for travellers to navigate. Tourists are often left relying on local landmarks to find their way around – even in the country’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.

To help solve this, Lonely Planet is joining forces with what3words to marry expert travel advice with innovative location technology, enabling travellers to pinpoint locations with exact precision.

what3words is a simple way to talk about location. The company has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3-word address. It means anyone can accurately find any location, anywhere in the world, more quickly, easily and with less ambiguity than any other system.

Now, in recognition of the game-changing technology which is set to revolutionize the way people navigate when they’re on the road, Lonely Planet for the first time will include the three-word addresses for each of the listings in the newest edition of its guidebook to Mongolia.

Get it 🅷🅴🆁🅴

Life’s real treasures

[Destination British Columbia]

Discover hidden treasures in the Kootenay Rockies region of British Columbia.

Vocabulary chunks from the video :

• a child of the wild
• quiet wonder
• moments of truth
• seared into my soul
• super natural

𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔠

“тнσѕє ωнσ ∂ση’т вєℓιєνє ιη мαgι¢ ωιℓℓ ηєνєя ƒιη∂ ιт”
– яσαℓ∂ ∂αнℓ

photography by vocabularyinchunks

…

 Magic

H2O

“𝓋𝑜𝓎𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓊𝓅𝑜𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒’𝓈  𝓈𝑒𝒶,
𝓉𝑜  𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻  𝒷𝑒  𝓉𝓇𝓊𝑒,
𝒶𝓃𝒹  𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇  𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇  𝓁𝑜𝓉  𝓂𝒶𝓎  𝒷𝑒,   𝓅𝒶𝒹𝒹𝓁𝑒  𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇  𝑜𝓌𝓃  𝒸𝒶𝓃𝑜𝑒”

– 𝓈𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒽  𝒷𝑜𝓁𝓉𝑜𝓃

-photography by vocabularyinchunks

 

 H2O