National cuisine in Britain has
remarkably changed in recent decades. It is caused by the fact that
people come there from all over the world and bring with them their culinary
secrets, their new recipes, their food and sauces.
English light breakfast consists of
toasts with marmalade, tea or coffee,plus scrambled eggs with beacon, sausages,
porridge or cereals with orange juice.
Next meal is between 12 and 14
o’clock. It’s time for a substantial meal – lunch. At this time they have a cup
of tea and some tasty cookies which are sold in on London streets in small kiosks. At
this time of the day the British go to fast-food restaurants where they have
hot-dogs or fish in chips (fish filet in bread crumbles with sauce), and French
fries and pickles as a garnish.
Between 15.00 and 18.00 they have
tea, which is an English tradition. They drink Traditional English tea in
offices, at home, in cafe confectioner’s shops, and they always drink it with
scones and muffins. Scones are small round biscuits that are usually cut in
halves and eaten with butter or cream. Muffins are small cake in paper
wrappings.
Dinner in Britain may be taken at 19.00 (then
it is called dinner) or at 23.00 (then it is called supper). For dinner
the British prefer to have something like chicken soup with onion, soup with
mutton with vegetables or vegetables, soup with meat. For a garnish the British
have traditional Yorkshire pudding.
And what is national cuisine in other
countries? Let’s compare some! French cuisine is elegant and festive. The
Chinese is exotic, the Russian is tasty and healthy.
Let’s look info Russian national
cuisine. Many dishes are very spicy, because they add different spices
there: horseradish, garlic, mayonnaise, pepper and so on. For dinner or
supper in Russia
they eat soup as the main course. Soup in Russian tradition is broth with much
of meat, vegetables, greenery and spices. In Britain soup is a smashed vegetable
substance or broth with toasts and vegetables.
Besides, the Russians have cold soups
like okroshka or kholodnik.