- •Кулинария и здоровое питание
- •Contents:
- •Traditional British dishes
- •Exercises
- •I. What are the English equivalents to:
- •III. Exercises
- •IV. Do these exercises
- •V. Read the rhyme below and make up your own dialogue on its basis:
- •VI. Study the following and memorize useful words and phrases.
- •1. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using expressions from a.
- •2. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using the expressions you have come across above to describe food and drink preferences.
- •3. Give the synonyms to the following words:
- •1) Match the English and Russian equivalents:
- •2) Match the equivalents of American and British English:
- •VIII. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. Eat your Greens.
- •Part II texts for careful studying
- •British meals and mealtimes
- •1. Find the equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text and write them down:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Read the following statements. Are they true or false?
- •4. Retell the text.
- •British food
- •Answer the questions on the text.
- •The vocabulary to be used:
- •Dinner and take-aways
- •Eating out
- •Vegetarianism
- •1. Find the equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text and write them down:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Read the following statements. Are they true or false?
- •4. Retell the text.
- •Is fast food bad?
- •Is some fast food healthier than others?
- •An Englishman's View of Russian Food
- •Answer the questions:
- •Russian Cuisine
- •National cuisine National Cuisine in Moscow Restaurants
- •Part III
- •I. Translate these sentences into English:
- •II. Correct the mistakes:
- •Translate the dialogue into English:
- •IV. Render into English:
- •V. Preparatory test
- •Part IV
- •1. Souffle Omelette
- •Ingredients
- •2. Chocolate Steamed Pudding
- •Ingredients
- •3. Rice Noodles In soup with Beef
- •Ingredients
- •4. Bombay Potatoes
- •Ingredients
- •5. Lemon Chicken
- •Ingredients
- •6. Tuna mayonnaise
- •Ingredients
- •Ingredients
- •Ingredients
- •Part V additional texts
- •English Pub
- •Food can be dangerous for your health!
- •Is it true that a lot of British dishes are named after places?
- •Italian
- •Text (from «Аэрофлот»)
- •The tables are turning
- •Let me tell you about Russia
- •II. Sit Down to Tea
- •In pairs, tell your partner about your favourite type of sweet. Say where you can buy it, the ingredients and how you eat it (with jam, tea etc.)
- •Come For Pancakes! Russian pancakes
- •V. We are what we eat
Russian Cuisine
Before you read:
What can you say about the Russian cuisine?
Russian cuisine is a mixture of many cultural traditions. Russian cuisine includes all kinds of vegetables, mushrooms, meat, milk products, honey, fruits and berries, and a variety of wheat, barley, and rye grains.
The Russian people have always been gourmets. Many names of Russian dishes and liquors have become international. For example: vodka, blini, piroshki, pelmeni.
In Moscow restaurants you can taste the traditional Russian fish soup "ukha" with a huge crawfish. There is a big choice of appetizers, soups on the menu: Russian meat soup with fresh cabbage — shchi, meat and fish soup — solyanka, kidney soup with dills'— rassolnik, fish soup — ukha, okroshka soup, green sorrel soup and cold beetroot soup — svekolnik.
For snacks the guests can taste cold meat dishes: ham, cold boiled pork — buzhenina, jellied tongue, meat jelly with'horse-radish sauce and various salads. The waiters recommend the guests pressed and red caviar, salmon, stuffed pike-perch, sturgeon in aspic, herring, marinated herring, smoked sprats and so on. The guests can also choose blini with caviar and salmon.
For the main course the guests can order sturgeon of any kind — boiled, steamed or on a spit. There are a lot of meat dishes on the menu: roast veal, beef-Stroganoff, minced meat wrapped in cabbage leaves — golubtsi, roast chicken, roast duck, goose stuffed with apples and sauerkraut, and so on. Russians are great lovers of pelmeni, small Siberian meat pies boiled in broth.
Russian cooking has a great variety of desserts. Kissel has been a favorite dish for many centuries. Kissel is made from fresh or dried fruits or from berries. For dessert you can also have apples baked with sugar, fruit and berry juice.
Russian cuisine is famous for a large variety of milk products: cottage cheese —tvorog, thick sour cream — smetana, and Russian yogurts—kefir and ryazhenka.
The guests can taste various Russian pies. They are pies with fish filling — rasstegai, a pie with meat or cabbage filling—kulebiaka, open tarts with curd —vatrushki.
Russian honey-cakes are called prianiki, thick O-shaped rolls are called boubliki, dry O-shaped rolls are called baranki or sooshki. Wheat loaves have dozens of varieties. As to rye bread, Russians eat more of it than any nation in the world — a peculiarity of the Russian diet.
Answer the questions:
l. What foodstuffs are used in Russian cuisine?
What names of Russian dishes and liquors have become international?
What are the names of Russian traditional soups?
What are the names of Russian meat dishes?
How are Russian traditional milk products called?
What are the names of Russian pies, honey-cakes, and rolls?
TEXT 10
National cuisine National Cuisine in Moscow Restaurants
What cuisine is popular among Moscovites and the guests of Moscow besides the leading Russian cuisine? This is so-called international cuisine, which is in fact, a free combination of the most well known European, American and Oriental cuisines. In Moscow restaurants you can order international dishes although each restaurant, as a rule, specializes in one of the national cuisines.
In today's Moscow you can find a classical choice of French cuisine dishes at the restaurant "Nostalgic". The splendid wine list of this restaurant is famous in Moscow.
Italian cuisine in Moscow is one of the most popular. Italian cuisine is famous for pasta dishes and internationally popular "pizza". Best Moscow restaurants, "Pizza Express" for example, will always offer a great choice of pasta dishes with different sauces as well as many kinds of pizza.
North American cuisine has become popular in Moscow lately. Restaurants with American cuisine offer meat dishes, vegetable dishes and fruit salads. You can taste real American steak in "Steak-house", "Exchange" and "B. B. King". Desserts, sweets, pastries are numerous: fruit juices, fresh fruit, fruit salads, whipped cream, biscuits, pies, and puddings.
Latin-American cuisine is famous for its spicy dishes with a lot of chili pepper. You can taste excellent Spanish cuisine in "Bulldog" restaurant. Worldwide popular TexMex dishes prepared by an American chef are the pride of the restaurant "Cactus Jack".
Caucasian cuisine has always been very popular in Russia. "Suliko" restaurant offers juicy and aromatic Caucasian shish-kebabs.
If you are interested in the culinary arts of Indo-China, we recommend you to visit popular Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian restaurants. Fish dishes — sashimi and sushi are the specialties of Japanese restaurants. Despite the fact that the peoples of Indo- China eat practically every kind of food, in the culinary art they don't use European dairy products. The Japanese, Koreans, Chinese use little salt, but they use vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and starch diluted in water as dressings. Try excellent Chinese cuisine at the "Chopsticks" restaurant.
Welcome to Moscow restaurants!
Answer the questions:
1 .Where can you find a classical choice of French dishes?
2. What is Italian cuisine famous for?
3. Where can you taste real American steak?
What is Latin-American cuisine famous for?
What fish dishes are the specialties of Japanese restaurants?
Translate into English:
1. Многочисленные рестораны в московских гостиницах знамениты своей русской кухней.
2.Каждый ресторан, как правило, специализируется на одной из национальных
кухонь.
3.Итальянская кухня — одна из наиболее популярных в Москве.
4.Итальянская кухня знаменита своими блюдами из спагетти и пиццей.
5.Латиноамериканская кухня известна своими пряными блюдами с большим количеством жгучего перца.
6.Кавказская кухня всегда была очень популярна в России.
7.В этом ресторане вы найдете классический выбор французских блюд.
8. Добро пожаловать в московские рестораны!