Meals in the USA and Great Britain.

MEALS IN THE USA AND GREAT BRITAIN

AMERICANS FOOD

HOW DO THE AMERICANS EAT

• There are various ethnic food, health food, fast food and traditional home – cooked food in the USA.
• Mexican food is the favourite of many Americans, but they love spaghetti, pizza and other types of Italian food.
• Now they often prefer fast food like hamburgers, hot dogs and French fries.
• The American people like traditional big breakfast and diet of meat and potatoes.

BREAKFAST

• For breakfast they have orange juice, then different kinds of cereal: cornflakes, oatmeal and others or eggs (fried or boiled), tea or coffee.

LUNCH

• Lunch is a quick meal for the most Americans.
• For lunch they have fast food: pizza, potato chips, McDonalds’s food, sandwiches, hot dogs, hot corn, any kind of sweet gas water, fruit and salads.
• At lunch time most Americans eat on the run, so fast food is very popular .

DINNER

• For dinner they always have salad with different kinds of vegetables mixed with croutons and dressing.
• After salad they like to eat fried chicken, steaks, ribs, beef, fish, baked, fried and mashed potatoes.

WHAT DO THE AMERICANS LIKE

• The Americans like ice cream, cookies, cakes, candies, very much, they also use 8 – 10 glasses of water a day.
• In common the Americans eat much, particularly at weekends.
• They go outside and very popular food is barbecue and food in cans.
• They also eat hot dogs, hot corn and less bread.

WHAT DO THE ENGLISH EAT?

• Englishmen’s daily diet depends on taste, income and pattern of everyday life.
• For breakfast they will grab a cup of tea or coffee and a piece of toast and marmalade, or not even that, and buy a coffee and croissant en route.
• At weekends they have the “Great British Breakfast”.
• It consists of fried bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, baked beans and fried bread.

HEALTHY BREAKFAST

• Anyone health – conscious may have cereal, muesli, fruit juice and perhaps a piece of toast and marmalade.
• At weekends, they can have scrambled eggs on toast, with grilled bacon, coffee.

LUNCH AND DINNER

• For lunch they have various sandwiches, a banana, occasionally soup or fruit juice – most people eat their main meal in the evenings, because of work.
• Traditional English food is fish and chips with peas, steak and kidney pie, sausage and mashed potatoes.
• Also they eat Indian or Chinese food, pasta with a meat or vegetable sauce, Pesto sauce, sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.

BRITISH CUISINE

• British cooking are joked a lot of, particularly by the French.
• For example, according to one French comic, hell is a place where the cooks are British.
• They have a wide choice of dishes.
• The British serve mint sauce with lamb.
• British cuisine cannot present so many internationally renowned dishes as French cuisine does.

• British people contributed a lot to the world’s steak culture.
• In the past British elite troops were called beefeaters.
• The British adopted a lot of dishes from many countries.
• For example sandwiches from France, tea from China.
• They didn’t just copy food and drink habits but combined them with their own foodstuffs: tea with milk and curry with pastry.

Cheese salad

• Ingredients
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• ¼ cup chopped parsley
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 ½ tsp dried basil leaves, crushed
• 2 cups of any hard cheese
• 1 cup 5 cm julienne – cut carrots

• 1 cup cherry tomato halves
• ½ cup walnuts, toasted
• Directions
• Combine mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, milk and basil; mix well. Add all remaining ingredients except walnuts; mix lightly. Chill. Stir in walnuts just before serving.
• Variation: Substitute 2 cups spiral noodles, cooked for tortellini.

Sandwiches

• Ingredients
• ¼ cup drained, flaked, water – packed tuna
• 1 tbsp each diced celery and red onion
• 1 tbsp diet mayonnaise
• ¾ tsp prepared mustard
• Dash oregano
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 slice whole grain bread
• 30 g sliced low – fat mozzarella cheese

Directions

• 1. Preheat the broiler.
• 2. In a small bowl combine tuna, celery, red onion, mayonnaise and mustard.
• 3. Add seasonings. Mix well/
• 4. Toast bread and spread with tuna mixture. Top with cheese. (If desired, cut into narrow slices)
• 5. Broil until tuna is hot and cheese has melted.

Main courses

• Ginger spiced pork
• Ingredients
• 25 g flour
• 1 ½ tsp salt and ground black pepper
• 1 level tsp ground ginger
• 675 g casserole or pork, cubed
• 25 g pork dripping or lard

• Sauce:
• ¼ tsp tabasco
• 400 g can tomatoes
• 100g button mushrooms
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 level tbsp soft brown sugar
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 bay leaf

Directions

• 1. Mix the flour, seasoning and ginger and use to coat the pork cubes.
• 2. Heat dripping or lard in a large frying pan.
• 3. Fry the pork quickly until browned, turning frequently, and then transfer to a 1.41 ovenproof dish.
• 4. Combine all ingredients for sauce and then pour over the meat. Cover and cook at 160 for about 1 hour until the meat is tender.

• Remove the bay leaf, taste and add seasoning.

Question’s

• 1. How many times a day do the Americans usually eat?
• 2. What do they have for breakfast?
• 3. What do the Americans drink during any meal?
• 4. What does the daily diet of the English depend on?
• 5. What is the “Great British Breakfast”?
• 6. What is traditional English food?

• 7. What did French comic say about British cuisine?
• 8. Can you translate the word beefeaters?
• 9. Do you know inventions of British cuisine?
• 10. What did the British adopt from East Asia?
• 11. Where did the British adopt curry – style spicing from?

THE END

• The presentation was made by Inna Fazylova, group K-402.