But if people enjoy fine dining, if people enjoy entertaining, they're always looking for ways to enjoy their friends and family and impress them and have wonderful food, but not everyone has the time these days to prepare things themselves.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

You might believe for instance, that women should not prepare food when menstruating because it would contaminate the food.

例如，你可能会认为，女人来月经时不应该做饭,因为这样会亵渎了食物。

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But it's really healthy. It's healthy food and I think it's a way we can learn to prepare food.

但那其实很健康。食物很健康，我们应该学着那样做。

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Even small changes in what we eat and how we prepare our food can be very useful, says physician David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life".

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

But I think it's a beautiful offering, as a way to prepare food without cooking.

但我觉得这样不用经过任何烹饪的食物是很美妙的。

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At the end of the day, at least in the U.S., there is little incentive to prepare a real dinner when fast food is so available - and so much more fattening.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

And there are ways to prepare these, this kind of thinking more along the food science idea.

而让它们可以食用的处理方法是存在的，可见食品科学是多么有意义。

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