Useful Expressions　１ Talking About Food.

      Talking about the look, smell and taste of food (食べ物の見た目、におい、味についての表現)  

  1.           The cake looks delicious.
  2.           The food smells good.
  3.           It smells like heaven in the kitchen.
  4.           The curry is tasty.
  5.           My wife's home-made cookies are yummy.  (informal) (yummy = delicious)
  6.           My mother's apple pie is out of this world. (= excellent, very delicious)
  7.           The steak looks over-cooked.
  8.           The soup is too salty.
  9.           The meat is tough and dry.
  10.           The taste of this dish is bland.
  11.           The steak tastes like a piece of leather.  (= hard and tasteless)
  12.           The food in the new Italian restaurant is second to none.  (= the very best)
  13.           The pasta in that restaurant is disgusting.  (= not delicious)

      Saying you are hungry (空腹だという表現）

  1.           I'm hungry.
  2.           I'm starved. (= very hungry)
  3.           I'm famished. (= very hungry)
  4.           I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
  5.           I'm peckish.  (= a little bit hungry)

      At the dinner table (夕食事に）

  1.           Please pass me the salt.
  2.           Could you pass the pepper please?
  3.           Could I have some milk please?
  4.           Could I have seconds, please?
  5.           Is there any more of this?
  6.           What's for dessert?  (Informal)