Talk About Food and Cooking in Italian | Italian for Daily Life | Italian Podcast

In this extended episode of Italiano Dinamico Podcast, Erica and Paolo guide you through one of the most essential and enjoyable topics in Italian: food and cooking. This extra-long lesson is perfect for beginners who want to build real conversational skills while learning practical vocabulary used every day in Italy.

You’ll learn how to talk about meals, ingredients, cooking actions, preferences, and simple recipes—all in clear, slow, beginner-friendly Italian. The hosts teach vocabulary naturally through dialogue, explanations, repetition, and a long story about preparing dinner with friends.

By the end, you’ll be able to describe what you eat, what you like, how you cook, and how to talk about food confidently in Italian.

What You’ll Learn:
• Words for meals: colazione, pranzo, cena, spuntino
• Cooking verbs: tagliare, mescolare, bollire, friggere, grigliare
• Common ingredients and food categories
• Useful expressions: mi piace, preferisco, non mi piace
• How to describe simple recipes and routines in the kitchen
• How Italians talk about everyday food and cooking
• A long mini-story featuring real-life cooking situations

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:56 Speaking about food
02:05 Dialogue teaching section: meals
03:00 Dialogue teaching section: cooking verbs
03:55 Vocabulary: ingredients
04:39 Practice section: cooking verbs
05:10 Dialogue teaching section: tastes and preferences
05:46 Mini roleplay
06:55 Practice section: tastes and preferences
07:33 Review
08:43 Question of the day

Perfect For: Beginners (A1–A2), self-learners, Italian language students, and anyone who wants practical Italian they can use immediately.

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