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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But you can't have scenes like this unless you have ppleoe like this. By the way, these can be men as well. It's people who think about food, who think ahead, who plan, who can sarte at a pile of raw vegetables and actually recognize them. We need these people. We're part of a network. Because without these kinds of people we can't have places like this. Here, I deliberately chose this because it is a man buying a vegetable. But nkrewtos, markets where food is being grown locally. It's common. It's fresh. It's part of the soiacl life of the city. Because without that, you can't have this kind of place, food that is grown locally and also is part of the landscape, and is not just a zero-sum commodity off in some unseen hell-hole. Cows with a view. Steaming piles of huums. This is baclasliy bringing the whole thing together.

Open Cloze


But you can't have scenes like this unless you have ______ like this. By the way, these can be men as well. It's people who think about food, who think ahead, who plan, who can _____ at a pile of raw vegetables and actually recognize them. We need these people. We're part of a network. Because without these kinds of people we can't have places like this. Here, I deliberately chose this because it is a man buying a vegetable. But ________, markets where food is being grown locally. It's common. It's fresh. It's part of the ______ life of the city. Because without that, you can't have this kind of place, food that is grown locally and also is part of the landscape, and is not just a zero-sum commodity off in some unseen hell-hole. Cows with a view. Steaming piles of _____. This is _________ bringing the whole thing together.

Solution


  1. humus
  2. people
  3. basically
  4. stare
  5. networks
  6. social

Original Text


But you can't have scenes like this unless you have people like this. By the way, these can be men as well. It's people who think about food, who think ahead, who plan, who can stare at a pile of raw vegetables and actually recognize them. We need these people. We're part of a network. Because without these kinds of people we can't have places like this. Here, I deliberately chose this because it is a man buying a vegetable. But networks, markets where food is being grown locally. It's common. It's fresh. It's part of the social life of the city. Because without that, you can't have this kind of place, food that is grown locally and also is part of the landscape, and is not just a zero-sum commodity off in some unseen hell-hole. Cows with a view. Steaming piles of humus. This is basically bringing the whole thing together.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural world 2
ancient ancestors 2
arable land 2
grain markets 2
ordering principle 2
powerful tool 2
grown locally 2


Important Words


  1. basically
  2. bringing
  3. buying
  4. chose
  5. city
  6. commodity
  7. common
  8. cows
  9. deliberately
  10. food
  11. fresh
  12. grown
  13. humus
  14. kind
  15. kinds
  16. landscape
  17. life
  18. locally
  19. man
  20. markets
  21. men
  22. network
  23. networks
  24. part
  25. people
  26. pile
  27. piles
  28. place
  29. places
  30. plan
  31. raw
  32. recognize
  33. scenes
  34. social
  35. stare
  36. steaming
  37. unseen
  38. vegetable
  39. vegetables
  40. view