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Spooner Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Prepare food for cooking

  • Prepare food for cooking

hi,

I want to know if the above phrase make sense especially with regard to the use of "food".

Isn't food what's already been cooked?

Does the word "food" mean "ingredients" sometimes?

Appreciate your help.
  

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-- It makes sense, but 'cooking' seems redundant. -- No. Lettuce is a food.

— Mister Micawber

  • -- It makes sense, but 'cooking' seems redundant.
  • -- No.
  • Lettuce is a food.
  • -- No, not normally.
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  • Prepare food for cooking

I want to know if the above phrase make sense especially with regard to the use of "food".-- It makes sense, but 'cooking' seems redundant.

Isn't food what's already been cooked?-- No. Lettuce is a food.

Does the word "food" mean "ingredients" sometimes?-- No, not normally.
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Isn't food what's already been cooked?-- No. Lettuce is a food.

Then what do you call what's been cooked and is ready to serve?
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How do you differentiate foods from ingredients?

Isn't lettuce an ingredient to make, say, a hamburger?
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Yes, and then it's not a food. Some foodstuffs can be both foods and ingredients, just as some words can be both nouns and verbs.
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