Everybody has to eat. Different people have different tastes. Everybody loves food he is used to eat. I like meals cooked by my mother. When I eat the same meal cooked by someone else I don’t like it so much. It is the same with each other.
Food is one of the biggest problems of today because it is necessary to eat. Bud what should we eat? What is healthy and what unhealthy. I really don’t know. Eggs were said to be healthy a few years ago. Later on they became unhealthy because of cholesterol. But now I read that people should eat eggs because they are good for their memory and they protect them from stress. It’s the same with the milk for instance. Milk is good for bones but you could be fat after some milk. Can we also drink milk packed in paper bags with an aluminium layer inside? Or can we eat healthy vegetables, which had grown on an acid soil?
Healthy food: milk – for bones, fruit, vegetables, poultry (chicken, hen, duck, goose, turkey), fish, rabbits, soja, cornflakes, dark bread, honey, nuts…
Unhealthy food: eggs, lamb, pork, beef, veal, mutton, chips, sweets, chocolates…
Alcoholic drinks – bad for the liver, but beer- good for digestion, red wine- good for blood…
“A lot of people are vegetarian because they think they eat healthy but it’s not true,” say the scientists. “Humans are omnivorous and they body is built that way and when they don’t eat meat the body don’t have all of the things it needs.” Red meat is also said to be unhealthy but American scientists discovered that there are some trace elements, which are in no other food.
I am may be a little bit sceptic but I think that it will be find that the food which is said to be healthy now will be said to be unhealthy a few year later and contrariwise.
When you come you should find a free table and wait for the waiter. It’s impolite to crack fingers. You can be fined for doing it. The waiter brings you a menu and asks whether you want anything to drink. (mineral water, cola, fanta… wine, beer, champagne, aperitifs…). You can have a soup first (potato, tomato, pea, bean, carrot, parsley, celery, mushrooms, beef, tripe, chicken, hen, poultry, fish, goulash, strawberry…) Then you could have a main meal (meat with potatoes, chips, croquette, dumplings, pasta, rice…) As for desert you could have ice cream, pancakes, cake, fruit… Then you call the waiter and pay for a dinner.
In our country the day starts with a breakfast, which consists of something to drink (tea with milk or lemon, cocoa, warm milk, black coffee) and something to eat (one or two slices of bread and butter and cheese or eggs, salami, ham, jam, honey…). Instead of bread we can eat rolls, buns or something sweet (cakes, doughnuts, gingerbread). A lot of people eat for their breakfast cornflakes or muesli. Breakfast usually takes place between 6 and 7 o’clock.
Around noon we have our lunch, which is warm and consist of soup, main meal, dessert and something to drink. Most people go to school or factory canteen, some of them prefer going to the restaurant of having fast lunch in a buffet or snackbar.
An evening meal could be either warm or cold. Quick and cold supper may consist of some paté on bread or rolls, kippers or some spread, ham, cheese… Warm supper could be a soup, potato pancakes (bramborák), ham and eggs, sausages…
Traditional English breakfast consists of glass of juice and cornflakes or muesli with sugar and milk. Of course they drink tea or coffee. Sunday is reserved for their big breakfast (it is sometimes called brunch – breakfast and lunch together) consisting of boiled or scrambled eggs or fried bacon and eggs with perhaps sausage or tomato or fried bread. Most people like a crisp piece of toast with butter and marmalade or honey.
In GB people have only a small lunch (sandwiches, fruit, sweets, vegetables, something to drink).
Typical British break is 5 o’clock tea. It is usually fairly strong and eaten together with some cakes or biscuits. They drink the tea with milk and without sugar.
About 6 o’clock most families have their evening meal or dinner. It may be cooked or cold depending on the time of the year. It is their main meal. They have often sausages, potatoes or chips. The English are fond of cakes and pies. They are used to eat a dessert after each dinner.
A lot of people eat some sandwiches or some bread with spread after the dinner at night (9 – 10 o’clock).
Fast food is a typical feature of both English and American lifestyles. At food stalls you can buy various types of food to eat as you walk along the streets or take it away and eat at home. The Americans call these restaurants “cheapies”. These places – McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, KFC … usually offer beverages (Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, tea, juice…), some solid food like roast chicken and chips, hamburgers, sandwiches, pizza, salads, deserts… You can put pickles, onions, ketchup or tomatoes on your hamburger too. The oldest type of fast food are sea food stalls or shops – usually fish and chips – the fish is cut to pieces, covered with batter (flour and water) and fried in oil. Another typical feature of British and American lifestyles is popcorn.
It is said that fast food is very unhealthy and probably it’s true. They fry it on a bad oil, the hygiene is also very bad and it is unhealthy to eat while you are walking. But it is very popular and most of children love it. In some countries it is also the cheapest food.
Both of this has advantages and disadvantages. OUT – no dishes, no washing up, no cooking, professionally prepared food, for many people it is a small celebration, very expensive, you have to go somewhere, it could be unhealthy, you have to wait till they prepare it. IN – cheaper, at home, more comfortable, dishes, you have cook it yourself
2. Put milk, flour and eggs together and mix it
3. Pour it on a frying pan with oil
4. Fry it until the edges are set than turn it to the other side.
5. Put it on a plate and spread it with a jam.
6. You can put fruit on it if you want.
7. You can put sugar, cocoa or creme on it.
Ingredients – Milk, eggs (you have to break them), oil, jam, fruit, sugar, cocoa, creme, flour
Equipment – frying pan, spoon, pot, plate, knife, mixer
Boil a water in a kettle. Warm a teapot. Put tea in a teapot (one teaspoonful of tea for each person plus traditional “one for the pot”). Pour the water over the tea leaves and leave it for ten minutes. While serving it first put a little milk in a cup and pour the tea over it through a tea strainer. Sugar is added according to taste but many English people prefer it without.
The origin of the word “sandwich” is interesting. An 18th century aristocrat, Earl of Sandwich” loved playing cards. He used to play all day and night and hated having to stop for his meals. So he thought of the way of putting meat between two slices of bread. In this way he could eat and play at the same time.
CZ – tripe soup, potato soup, roast goose and sauerkraut and Czech dumplings, roast sirloin of beef in sour cream sauce and dumplings, roast pork sauerkraut and dumplings, Moravian Sparrows (roast fat pork offcuts), Spanish Birds (rolled beef steaks filled with salami, pickle, egg, mustard), potato pancakes, fruit dumplings with cream, potato or “hairy“ dumplings, fried cheese
GB – overcooked vegetables, tasteless meat and a lot of grease
Roast pork, sauerkraut, Czech dumplings or schnitzel, potatoes and vegetables.
I found that it isn’t as good as our food. I visited GB few years ago and I didn’t like their food very much. They made quite strange combinations of different kinds of food. I couldn’t understand how could they eat cheese with ketchup or liver paté with tomatoes. It was also difficult to get used to their timetable of eating.
I have some bad experiences with foreign food. When I visited Tunis I realised that in different countries live different types of people. Europeans are not used to African food and water. It was a normal food but it was prepared from their ingredients and water. My stomach was so spoiled after a week of eating that. I was ill, feeling very bad with stomachache and diarrhoea. Now I know that I have to drink some vodka or slivovica twice a day to desinfect the stomach.
I think that Czech cousin has changed a lot. Now we have a lot of different kinds of meat, vegetables, fruit all the year. People can eat what they want but they have to have money. Czech cousin had never been healthy I think. It’s the same this time but it has changed a little when a lot of people became vegetarians or stopped eating red meat. A lot of women are on a diet. There are many new restaurants typical for other countries like Pizzerias, Chinese restaurants etc. Fast food became also very popular this time. You can see McDonald’s or KFC in every bigger town.
cook vařit
fry smažit
boil vařit
ve vodě
roast péct
(maso)
bake péci
grill grilovat
stew dusit
smoke udit
scramble (egg) míchaný
pour nalít
cut krájet
peel loupat
mince na
drobno nakrájet
open otevřít
break (an egg) rozbít
beat šlehat
stir míchat
slice plátek,
krajíc
take vzít,
brát
put on a lid položit
pokličku
take off a lid vzít
pokličku
squeeze a lemon vymačkat citrón
spread a butter rozetřít máslo
lay/set the table prostřít stůl
clear the table sklidit ze stolu
wash up mýt
nádobí
cuisine národní
kuchyně
sponge houba
breakfast snídaně
lunch svačina
dinner hlavní
jídlo
supper večeře
dessert zákusek,
dezert
aperitif aperitiv
hors-d’oeuvre předkrm
foods:
brawn nakládané
maso
joint kýta
game zvěřina;
hra
poultry drůbež
sucking-pig sele
chicken kuře
hen slepice
duck kachna
turkey krocan
goose husa
beef hovězí
pokr vepřové
veal telecí
mutton skopové
lamd jehněčí
rabbits králík
wreaths of sausages věnec uzenek
pudding jelito,
klobása; pudink
cutlet kotleta
schnitzel řízek
sirloin svíčková
kidney ledvina
kippers uzenáče
salmon losos
mackerel makrela
carp kapr
trout pstruh
jackfish štika
cod treska
plaice platýz
lobster humr
oyster ústřice
herring steď
bacon slanina
grease tuk,
sádlo
salami salám
ham šunka
sausage párek
beef tea hovězí
vývar
tripe droby,
dršťky
roll houska,
rohlík
goulash soup gulášová
polévka
pastry pečivo
bread chleba
cereal obilovina
dumplings knedlíky
rice rýže
pastes těstoviny
spaghetti špagety
sponage biscuits piškoty
doughnut kobliha
gingerbread perník
yeast kvasnice
youghurt jogurt
muesli müsli
cornflakes kukuřičné
lupínky
jam marmeláda
marmelade džem
(jen pomerančový)
honey med
salad salát
chip hranolek
sweets cukroví,
bombóny
cake koláč
baking-powder prášek
do pečení
stewed fruit kompot
cheese tvaroh,
sýr
ketchup kečup
vinegar ocet
sauerkraut kyselé
zelí
egg vejce
pulses luštěniny
raisins hrozinky
vanilla sugar vanilkový
cukr
icing sugar cukr
moučkový
castor sugar cukr
práškový
granulated sugar cukr krystal
cube sugar kostkový
cukr
flour mouka
semolina krupice
chocolate čokoláda
ice-cream zmrzlina
pancake lívanec
growths:
apple jablko
apricot meruňka
bean fazole
bilberries borůvky
black currant černý
rybíz
broccoli brokolice
cabbage zelí
carrot mrkev
celery celer
coconut kokosový
ořech
cucumber okurka
currant rybíz
garlic česnek
gooseberries angrešt
grapefruit grep
grape-vine hroznové
víno
hazel-nut lískový
ořech
cherry višně,
třešně
kohlrabi kedluben
leek pórek
lemon citrón
lentil čočka
lettuce hlávkový
salát
mandarin mandarinka
mushroos houby
onion cibule
orange pomeranč
parsley petržel
pea hrách
peach broskev
peanut arašid,
burák
pear hruška
pineapple ananas
plum švestka
potatoes brambory
pulses luštěniny
soya sója
strawberry jahoda
tomato rajče
walnut vlašský
ořech
spices:
salt sůl
pepper pepř
red pepper paprika
sage šalvěj
rosemary rozmarýn
thyme tymián
marjoram majoránka
curry kari
ginger zázvor
mace muškátový
květ
cinnamon skořice
mustard hořčice
clove hřebíček
cumin kmín
bay leaf bobkový
list
allspice nové
koření
items:
knife nůž
fork vidlička
spoon lžíce;
vařecha
pot hrnec
ladle naběračka
saucepan pánev,
rendlík
digester Papinův
hrnec
cooker vařič
lid poklička
glass sklenice
cup/pot hrnek
plate talíř
soup plate hluboký talíř
flat plate mělký talíř
dish mísa
bowl hlubší mísa
baking-board vál
rolling-pin váleček
grater struhadlo
scrape škrabka
opener otvírák
tin-opener otvírák
an konzervy
sieve sítko
wafwr destička
na krájení
toothpick párátko
skewer špejle
mill mlýnek
mixer šlehač
fridge lednice
dishwasher myčka
na nádobí
oven trouba
kitchen-range sporák