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Craft and StructureMediumStructure: a recipe's origin and its spread

Craft and Structure practice question

The dish began as a way to use up stale bread: cooks in the hill villages soaked it in broth and baked it with whatever cheese was to hand. Travellers carried the idea to the towns, where cooks added meat and spices. By the time it reached the capital's restaurants it had become an expensive speciality, and the stale bread was replaced with fresh.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

  1. A. It traces how a dish changed as it spread from one setting to another.Correct
  2. B. It gives instructions for making a dish.
  3. C. It compares the cooking of villages and towns.
  4. D. It argues that the original version was best.

Answer: A. It traces how a dish changed as it spread from one setting to another.

Villages, towns, capital.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It gives instructions for making a dish.
No instructions.
C. It compares the cooking of villages and towns.
Comparison is not the frame; change over places is.
D. It argues that the original version was best.
No judgement is made.

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