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Aug 29, 2007, 1:14 PM

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Help please! Restaurant kitchen/Mexican slang

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My son's fiancée is from Mexico, so I'm learning Spanish. I speak French, and keep pronouncing the Spanish ALL wrong! But I'm determined to learn, so I can enjoy their wedding in Monterrey, and get to know my future DIL's family.

ANYWAY, apart from that, I'm an author and my 3rd book has a restaurant setting. I need examples of Mexican slang that might be used in the kitchen. References to food, to a hot-tempered-crazy chef/boss, remarks about customers, waitresses, hangovers, cut fingers, innuendos, that sort of thing. I'd really appreciate some help!

Aug 31, 2007, 5:10 PM

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Re: [EbbyMolloy] Help please! Restaurant kitchen/Mexican slang

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Hi...

Sorry, I don't know any vocabulary that'd be of help.

But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that there are Spanish speaking workers in some of the restaurants in your town, wherever it is.
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"Beauty is in the i of the Beholder"
(Julia Mandelbrot)

Sep 7, 2007, 6:05 PM

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Re: [EbbyMolloy] Help please! Restaurant kitchen/Mexican slang

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Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain?

Saludos,
Anonimo