2. FOOD AND DRINK
2. FOOD AND DRINK
1) EATING HABITS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Some people try to live and eat healthily. Everybody should have breakfast every morning. The best possibility are cereals or porridge and yoghurt, fruit juice and a tea. Some people prefer a more usual breakfast: a slice of bread or a roll with butter, ham, cheese, marmalade or honey. Someone likes scrambled eggs. Lots of Czechs like strong black coffee in the morning. However, Czech people like drinking coffee any time of day: black (Turkish) coffee, instant coffee or espresso with milk or cream and sugar. Another kinds of coffee start to be popular, such as Latte.
On the other hand, the Czechs are often in a hurry. Lots of them have no breakfast and in the morning they want to leave home as quickly as possible.
It is usual to have a snack (second breakfast) during the morning: bread with spread, yoghurt, rolls, some biscuits or wafers.
The Czechs like having big lunch. It is the main meal of the day. Some of them eat in canteens, others like going to the restaurant for midday menu. They have typical Czech meals such as meat with dumplings and sauce or schnitzel with potato etc., Chinese meals, Italian meals such as pizza etc.
In the afternoon, they like having something small.
Supper is made late in the evening and mostly it is not very healthy: toasts, scrambled eggs, pizza or sausages.
Czech women like cooking and baking. They like trying new recipes and cooking programmes on TV are very popular.
Traditional Czech meals are roast pork with sauerkraut and dumplings, and sirloin with cream sauce and dumplings. Czech cuisine is not very healthy because it doesn't use lots of vegetables, but it is tasty and popular with foreigners!
The Czechs like drinking good beer (Czech beer is known worldwide for its quality; it is exported to foreign countries). Especially men like going to pubs where they have their group of friends (women are not fond of this activity).
The Czechs also like drinking wine. Winegrowing and vineyards have their longtime tradition in Bohemia and especially in Moravia, where there are lots of wine cellars with good white and red wines. You can pay for a special trip to a cellar where you can drink and taste wine the whole night.
2) EATING HABITS IN BRITAIN
Later in the evening they may have supper. It consists of more tea, cocoa, milk, sandwiches, bread and butter, cheese, cakes and biscuits.
The English are said to boil everything for too long, for example vegetables are "boiled to death" (overboiled). English cuisine is considered to be not very tasty. But you have to try it before you judge it. Maybe you will like the chips with vinegar flavour.
3) FOOD IN AMERICA
The Americans are generally not fond of cooking. They prefer oven-ready food and so called "TV-dinners" (a complete menu ready for a microwave).TV dinner
The Americans love doughnuts (a circle of dough with a hole in the middle and spread with sugar). And of course - hamburgers! Mostly they drink plenty of coke and eat lots of chips, french fries and pizza. American nation has to face a big problem: overweight. Even very small children are too fat and suffer from various illnesses connected to overweight.
4) MY EATING HABITS
- talk about your eating habits during the day!
You can taste foreign cuisines in some foreign restaurants: Chinese, Italian, Mexican or Spanish.
FOOD AND DRINK