traditional dish
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- noun
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plato tradicional
- Making the traditional dishes considered historically emblematic of Orgosolo, they recreated not only the tastes of history but also the social relations of commensality that were associated with them.
- make traditional dish
Examples
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"Pad Thai is the most traditional dish," Derek said as he scrolled through with the thumb slide in the left margin, "but I've never had a bad meal here no matter what I pick."
Fiction book (1999) -
One of the flavor trends this year is Honoring Roots, which describes applying different flavors or influences to a traditional dish without fundamentally altering it.
Blog text (32) -
A fusion menu with a few traditional dishes is a good choice.
Blog text (5) -
It's a traditional dish from the town of Puebla, which is better known for mole, but which has other great food.
Blog text (14) -
Whenever anyone in the parish forgot how to prepare a traditional dish or was missing an essential ingredient, they went to Dona Marina.
Fiction book (1990) -
In Brazil, we have this traditional dish that we cook inside a pumpkin called pumpkin with shrimp; it is so delicious that we also use coconut milk.
Blog text (19) -
Africans, or people of African descent, played an important if mostly forgotten part in the invention of one of Philadelphia's traditional dishes, pepper pot.
Academic text (1991) -
What makes cuisines is not culinary physics but the characteristic combinations of ingredients that cooks in one culture or another combine to make traditional dishes.
Academic text (1990) -
The Asian-inspired made-to-order menu is reminiscent of Pei Wei, but Fu's promises a fresh take on traditional dishes.
Blog text (9) -
Zhou boils bread in milk, a traditional dish in northern China.
Synonyms
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A food people in a place think is special or traditional
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Traditional food from a certain place that people often eat there
Antonyms
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'traditional' (pertaining to long-established customs) modifies 'dish' (a food item), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a culturally characteristic food. This adjective + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English composition, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Traditional dish comes from the idea of a meal families make the same way for many years. The word traditional shows the long family practice and dish is the food, so these meals are often 'passed down' and served at festivals, which is why the phrase means a food that is 'typical' of a place or culture.