input: "Food in France is still primarily about pleasure,"says Mark Singer, technical director of cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris."Cooking and eating are both pastimes and pleasure."The French might start their day with bread, butter, jam, and perhaps something hot to drink -- it's a time of the day when the whole family can be united. Singer, born in Philadelphia, has lived in France for more than 40 years.

"Although things have changed greatly in the past 20 years when it comes to food in the country,"he says,"and what was a big affair with eating has been slowly softened up, there are still events in the year, like birthdays and New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve that are still really anchored in traditional food and cooking. But it's not every day."

Some people think French food life may be a performance, adds Jennifer Berg, director of graduate food studies at New York University."They want to believe that France is this nation where people are spending five hours a day going to 12 different markets to get their food. The reality is most croissants are factory-made, and most people are buying convenience food, except for the very small group of people in high society. But part of our identity relies on believing that myth."

In Italy, as in France, takeout is still ly rare."Eating fast is not at all part of our culture,"says Marco Bolasco, editorial director of Slow Food and an Italian food expert. Our meals are relaxed, even during a lunch break. Food in Italy is love, and nutrition, and pleasure, he says. An Italian child's first experience with food is not small round cakes or rice or eggs, but probably ice cream, notes Bolasco. Status and wealth play less of a role in food. 1. Contrary to reputation, how are most croissants made?
2. Which group of people don't buy fast food?
3. What's a French holiday that is still associated with traditional food?
4. Who is the technical director at Le Cordon Bleu?
5. What does he say French food is about?
6. Where was he born?
7. How long has he lived in France?
8. What is Jennifer Berg's profession?
9. Who is the editorial director of Slow Food?
10. Does he feel like Italian meals are hurried?
11. What does he say a child's first food might be? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Most croissants are factory-made
2. Italians
3. New Year's Eve
4. Mark Singer
5. Pleasure
6. Philadelphia
7. More than 40 years.
8. Director of graduate food studies
9. Marco Bolasco
10. No
11. Ice cream

input: Pliny the Elder (b. Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23 79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of the emperor Vespasian.

Spending most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, Pliny wrote the encyclopedic "Naturalis Historia" ("Natural History"), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:

Pliny the Younger refers to Tacitus's reliance upon his uncle's book, the "History of the German Wars". Pliny the Elder died in AD 79, while attempting the rescue, by ship, of a friend and his family, in Stabiae, from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which already had destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano's eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and Pliny probably died during that event.

Pliny's dates are pinned to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and a statement of his nephew that he died in his 56th year, which would put his birth

Pliny was the son of an equestrian, Gaius Plinius Celer, and his wife, Marcella. Neither the younger nor the elder Pliny mention the names. Their ultimate source is a fragmentary inscription (CIL V 1 3442) found in a field in Verona and recorded by the 16th century Augustinian monk Onofrio Panvinio at Verona. The reading of the inscription depends on the reconstruction, but in all cases the names come through. Whether he was an augur and whether she was named Grania Marcella are less certain. Jean Hardouin presents a statement from an unknown source that he claims was ancient, that Pliny was from Verona and that his parents were Celer and Marcella. Hardouin also cites the conterraneity (see below) of Catullus. 1. who was friends with the emperor?
2. what was his real name?
3. who was his dad?
4. and mom?
5. how did he spend his spare time?
6. anything else?
7. what was his nephews name?
8. what did the elder write?
9. how did he die?
10. when did he die?
11. why couldnt his ship leave the port?
12. who did the younger write a letter to?
13. what was it about? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Pliny the Elder
2. Gaius Plinius Secundus
3. Gaius Plinius Celer,
4. Marcella
5. studying
6. Yes
7. Pliny the Younger
8. Naturalis Historia
9. the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
10. AD 79
11. The wind caused by Mount Vesuvius
12. Tacitus
13. Tacitus's reliance upon his uncle's book

input: Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant has stunned experts and his keepers at Everland Zoo near Seoul by imitating human speech. Koshik can say the Korean words for "hello," "sit down," "no," "lie down" and "good." His trainer, Kim Jong Gap, first started to realize Koshik was mimicking him several years ago.

""In 2004 and 2005, Kim didn't even know that the human voice he heard at the zoo was actually from Koshik," zoo spokesman In Kim In Cherl said. "But in 2006, he started to realize that Koshik had been imitating his voice and mentioned it to his boss."

Why do elephants have hair on their heads?

His boss initially called him "crazy."

Koshik's remarkable antics grabbed the interest of an elephant vocalization expert thousands of kilometers away at the University of Vienna in Austria.

""There was a YouTube video about Koshik vocalizing, and I was not sure if it was a fake, or if it was real," Dr. Angela Stoeger-Horwath said. She traveled with fellow expert Dr. Daniel Mietchen to South Korea in 2010 to test the elephant's ability. They recorded Koshik repeating certain words his keeper said and then played them for native Korean speakers to see, if they were recognizable.

"It is, for some of the sounds he makes, quite astonishing for how similar they are," said Mietchen of the University of Jena in Germany. "For instance the word 'choa' (meaning good) -- if you hear it right after what the keeper says -- it's quite similar." 1. What grabbed expert's interest? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. unknown