Вопрос № 911744 - Английский язык

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Health foods may be popular today because many Americans became tired of processed foods. Canned, frozen, and processed foods became very popular in the United States in the 1950s. At that time, the American food industry tried to convince American cooks that these foods were more timesaving, modern, and safe. And those values were more important to most Americans than the taste of the food. The time saved by opening a can of peas was more important to busy housewives than the better taste of fresh peas, which take more work in the kitchen. And the economy of the United States changed so that it actually became cheaper to buy canned or frozen peas than fresh ones.
What do Americans eat today? Many, who grew up eating food out of a can, prefer frozen pizzas, potato chips, and TV dinners. Others prefer “plain old American food,” which usually means something like simply cooked meat with potatoes and vegetables cooked separately. At the same time, some Americans have become interested in other kinds of foods, such as health foods and international foods.
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At that time, the American food industry tried to convince American cooks that these foods were _______.

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Today we are going to the oriental market for shopping. It will be a wonderful trip. You’ll taste cheese, home-baked bread and smoked pork. Everything is cooked fresh, daily and the quality of the produce is superb. There is a huge variety of foods such as figs, beans, bitter herbs, olives, almonds and other nuts. Just look at the tomatoes ripened and so full of flavour, the crates full of peppers, aubergines and avocados.
You’ll find fresh herbs, such as parsley and leaf coriander, as well as some more exotic vegetables – okra, fresh black-eyed beans and purple leafy artichokes, oranges, grapefruit and lemons, strawberries and black cherries, plums, apricots, peaches and nectarines, watermelons and melons, sweet seedless grapes and pinkish grapes.

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If you ask foreigners to name some typically English dishes, they will probably say “Fish and chips” then stop. It is disappointing, but true that, there is no tradition in England of eating in restaurants, because the food doesn’t lend itself to such preparation. English cooking is found at home. So it is difficult to find a good English restaurant with reasonable prices. In most cities of Britain you’ll find Indian, Chinese, French and Italian restaurants. In London you’ll also find Indonesian, Mexican, Greek. Cynics will say that this is because English have no “cuisine” themselves, but this is not quite the true.

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The English proverb says: every cook praises his own broth. One can not say English cookery is bad, but there is not a lot of variety in it in comparison with European cuisine. The English are very particular shout their meals. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
Breakfast time is between seven and nine a.m. A traditional English breakfast is a very big meal. It consists of juice, porridge, a rasher or two of bacon and eggs, toast, butter, jam or marmalade, tea or coffee. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. Many people like to begin with porridge with milk or cream and sugar, but no good Scotsman ever puts sugar on it, because Scotland is the home of porridge. For a change you can have sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, cold ham or perhaps fish.

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Everyone knows that tea is the most popular drink in Britain. It’s even more popular than 1_______, which is favoured throughout Europe and America. The Dutch brought the first tea to Europe in 1610. But it was not until 1658 that the first 2_______ for tea appeared in a London newspaper. At that time a pound of the cheapest tea cost about one-third of a skilled worker’s weekly 3_______. Tea was guarded by the lady of the house and kept in special containers, often with a lock and carefully doled out by the teaspoon. By 1750 tea had become the principal 4_______ of all the classes in Britain. Later, tea-drinking developed into a fashionable social ritual. Tea parties were popular at home and soon the ritual of “afternoon tea” was firmly established.

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The two substantial meals of the day are lunch and dinner. 1_______ is usually taken at one o’clock. For many people lunch is a quick meal. Office 2_______ usually go to a café at this time. They take fish, poultry or cold meat (beef, mutton, veal and ham), boiled or fried potatoes and all sorts of salad. They may have 3_______ or steak and chips followed by biscuits and a cup of coffee. Some people like a glass of light 4_______ with lunch. Pubs also serve good, cheap food. School children can have a hot meal at school. Some of them just bring a snack from home.