Food

Gastronomy is a term, which means the art of good eating. Gastronomy includes the preparation of meals, dining, eating customs and everything related to food and drinks.
The first meal of the day is breakfast. The majority people eat a breakfast that consists of bread or bread rolls with butter, salami, ham, honey, cheese or jam. Many people drink at breakfast tea, coffee or glass of juice.
At 10 a.m. is the usual time for a mid morning snack. It is good to eat something light and healthy.
At midday is lunchtime. Often lunch consists of soup, a main course, and a dessert. At lunch people have juice, mineral water, beer or wine.
We have another snack at 4 p.m. There are usually sandwiches with tea or coffee.
The last meal of the day is dinner.
Preferably, we should drink two litres of liquid every day.

When we can eat healthy, we should eat small amounts several times a day and a lot of fresh products, fresh vegetables and fruit or dairy products, whole grain or brown bread. We shouldn’t eat white bread and many sweets or fat meat. A good diet is rich in fibre, minerals and vitamins.

The Czech diet is not very healthy. It is based on meat and most meat is served with potatoes or dumplings. Favourite are also sweet dishes. Our national meal is roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut. Popular dishes include Wiener schnitzel with potato salad, roast beef with a cream sauce or cabbage soup with sausage. Czech beer is famous all over the world. Bohemian and Moravian wines are well known as well. The most popular spirit drinks are a plum brandy “Slivovice” and the herb-based drink “Becherovka”.

The most famous American food is hamburgers, French fries and Coca Cola. But American diet is much more rich and diverse.
Originally Americans ate meals of corn, squash, pumpkin and turkey. Today, these foods remain regular part of American diet. On Thanksgiving Day, American families eat the national meal of turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Today are also very popular ethnic foods. The Americans loves sweet dishes. The favourite American dessert is fruit pie served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or doughnuts, sweet rolls and muffins.

The Americans have usually quick and easy meals at breakfast. Many people have a bowl of cereal with milk. But the English are known for their full breakfast that includes fried bacon and eggs or sausages.
The Americans go on Sundays to restaurants for a large brunch. This is the meal served between breakfast and lunch mostly with champagne.
Lunch is not the main meal of the day. It is a quick and simple light meal. The Americans and the English eat mostly sandwiches and tea or coffee.
Dinner is the large meal hot meal of the day. Dinner usually includes a main meat or vegetarian dish, salad, cooked vegetables with potatoes, pasta or rice. Among traditional British specialities belong smoked Scottish salmon or country pastes made from pork livers. The most popular American meat dishes served at dinner are beef and pork.