The Fish And Chip—Shop

A special British institution is the fish and chip-shop, where it is possible to buy over the counter a piece of fried Fish and potatoes. You can eat the fish and chips in the street as you walk along, or take it home where you can eat it on the plate. In cold weather some people take it to the nearest pubs or to the cinemas. Most fish and chip-shops close before 11 p.m., staying open late enough to serve people as they come out of cinemas which usually finish around 10.15 p.m. Snack bars and, espresso coffee bars have great success among young people below the age for going to pubs.

WORDS AND PHRASES

cereal — злаки; disgusting — отвратительный, food stalls — лотки с едой fried — жареный; honey — мед snack — зд. "тормозок", treat — лакомство

Ukrainian cuisine

The national cuisine reflects the richness oiNtraditions and folkways of Ukrainian people.

The most popular and well-known Ukrainian dish is surely borshch, an aromatic and appetizing cabbage-soup of some 20 ingredients. It may be cooked with beef, chicken, or pork, baked beets, beans and mushrooms. Borshch is served as the main course with pampushki, soft rolls soaked in garlic.

Traditional in the Ukrainian menu are varenyky, a type of boiled dumplings with various fillings (cherries, strawberries, fried mushrooms, curd, chopped liver, etc.) and golubtsy-cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat.

Ukrainian cuisine has a variety of dairy meal as well as sweet pastry, including doughnuts, cakes and other cookies. The proud of Ukrainian peogle is wheat bread, sweet-smelling and light.

If you have an occasion to be at the Ukrainian home, you will be charmed by the sincere warmth of hosts and home-made food.

cuisine - кухня; dumpling — клецка; pastry - кондитерские изделия; doughnut — пончик.

Vegetarian diet

There have always been many people who, for various reasons, do not eat meat. Maybe К is because the^ dislike the taste, or are not in favour of killing animals for food, and, of course, there may be health problems.

Anyway people throughout the world in India, China, America and other countries have eaten meals without meat and fish for centuries. Therefore it is quite natural that public catering does not remain indifferent to vegetarians and their diet. Apart from emotional problems there certainly are some scientific problems too. You must know that vegetarian dishes need not consist only of vegetables, fruit and plants.

It is a fact that the proteins of plants do not provide all the ammo-acids which a human body needs. The lacto-vegetarians recognize this themselves by eating cheese, eggs and milk, all of which are foods providing animal proteins, just like muscle meat does.

As for the amino-acids provided by plant proteins, they are as good as those of animal proteins. It is the amino-acids missing in plant protein which are the great problem. Research is going on in many parts of the world to see if plants cannot be produced which will furnish proteins adequate to meet human needs.

That will be one way, among many others, in which we shall be able to meet the needs of