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The French Culture is a very diverse assortment of
1) We are know that food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an
organism. A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. The food is
divided into 8 main groups: meat, poultry and seafood (chickens, sheep, pigs, cattle, eggs,
fish), bakery and confectionary, dairy products, fast food, fruits and vegetables, herbals and
spices. And there are 2 types of drinks: soft drinks ( mineral water; juice, soda( fizzy drink,
pop)) and strong drinks (wine, brandy, beer). This is not enough to know the types of food,
we should be up in methods of cooking as well in order to be able to cook the excellent and
yummy dish. We can bake, roast, fry, grill, steam, simmer, stew food and so on. Lets move
on to my personal preferences in food. I’m totally in love with confectionary and bakery
products. Especially muffins, pancakes, cakes, pastry, chocolate waffles and doughnuts. To
be frank with you I can’t stand some vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, radish and
pumpkin. The sad fact is that I am allergic to huge amount of sugar, that’s why I try to
reduce the products with sugar from my ration. I fight with my addiction to confectionary
and substitute it with some more wholesome food. I can introduce the great receipt of
sweet, healthy, dieting and mouthwatering oatmeal pancakes. You need: 1/2 cup Almond
Milk unsweetened, 2 Eggs, 1 Egg White, 1 Banana, 2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup, 1/2 cups
Rolled Oats , 2 teaspoons Baking Powder, 1 pinch of Salt, 1 teaspoon Vanilla optional.
Instruction: 1) In a blender, pour in Almond Milk, and add all the ingredients of the list.
2)Blend until smooth.4)Heat skillet over medium heat. Once warmed, place butter in skillet.
5) Pour liquid into skillet in round circles.5) Cook for 2-3 minutes on one side. Turn over and
cook for another 1-2 minutes.6) Drizzle with real maple syrup and toppings of choice.
2) There have never been so many different diets around and yet we know that many
people suffer from being overweight. But not all types of dieting are healthy and put it
mildly not all the people know what a healthy dieting is about. Eating a healthy diet is not
about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you
love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and
boosting your mood. To be quite plain and short we must eat more products which consist
of protein, healthy fats, calcium and fibber. To come back to our mines, I should mention
pros and corns of dieting. Pros: It does in some cases help to get the unhealthy weight off.-
It gives us a feeling of control because we are doing something to make us healthier .- We
learn more about healthy nutrition as we research which diet to go on.- We become more
aware of what we eat. Cons: Not all diets are healthy so we might miss out on the nutrition
we really need.- If dieting fails we can feel miserable or even depressed.- Dieting
sometimes makes us cranky because we feel hungry.- Calories are ‘feel good’ foods so when
we cut back we don’t feel as good. To crown it all, make peace with food is not really easy
way, but if you take challenge to yourself and gather your willpower, I’m sure you’ll get an
excellent result and achieve your goal.
3) The term eating habits refers to why and how people eat, which foods they eat, and with
whom they eat, as well as the ways people obtain, store, use, and discard food. Individual,
social, cultural, religious, economic, environmental, and political factors all influence
people's eating habits. Nowadays we live fast. We always go running to everywhere. We
are really busy, we work, , we do housework, we study and we have an intense social life.
We don´t have enough time for us and finally we have bad eating habits because it is faster
to cook a hamburger than to cook a good stew. It is faster to eat a sandwich than to eat a
big salad.A lot of times we need to eat out and fast food is cheaper or we often go out with
friends and we eat too much and we drink alcohol.
Also, in these days, there are all kinds of food in the supermarkets, food with a lot of fat like
pizzas, chocolates, ice-creams, cakes, buns or chips. Our society has a real huge problem of
eating unhealthy food. The thing is that a lot of food companies try to create irresistible
receipt in order to create an addiction in consuming their product. Their common Ingr. Are
sugar and caffeine. Consequenses : appearance of adult diseases in children, overweight,
eating disorders , diseases that seem to come up from nowhere. Sugar saturated food
environment. Solutions: tax on products, put unhealthy products little higher on the shelf.
To be hooked on habit-forming foods.
4) Ukrainian cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking, practice and traditions associated
with Ukrainian culture, culinary art in Ukraine. A lot of food products are subjected to a
complex heat processing - at first they are fried or boiled, and then stewed or baked. This is
the most distinctive feature of Ukrainian cuisine. This complex heat processing allows to
preserve the aroma of the dishes and gives them juiciness. Especially tasty and healthy are
the dishes of meat and vegetables - cabbage rolls with meat, Volynian krucheniki, beef
larded with beets, etc. Ukrainian dishes are known for their variety and high taste qualities.
Ukrainian cuisine includes hundreds of recipes: borscht and pampushki, flat cakes and
dumplings, mushroom sauce, banosh, vareniki and sausages, drinks from fruits and honey,
etc. Some dishes have a centuries-old history, for example, Ukrainian borscht. Ukrainian
cuisine is characterized by dishes rich in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. For most dishes,
a complex set of components is characteristic (for example, in borscht there are up to 20
components).
5) A national cuisine can tell us a lot of traditions, tastes, special features of the country
and it depicts cultural identity as well. I’m inclined to believe that you know to which
national cuisines pasta, croissants, waffles, chachapuri, borhch, lasagna are referred .
That’s why I want to tell about my favorite French cuisine. French Cuisine is known for its
richness of taste and its elegant.
different regions all put together, which add to its greatness.Cheese, wine, and bread are
staples at a French home or restaurant. Bread and pastries are consumed daily and are
readily available at boulangeries, French for local bakeries. Wine is a staple drink after
meals but it is seldom taken by itself or without food. Wine is not consumed only during
celebrations or special occasions, but it is taken after regular everyday meals.
Italia:
Although Italians are known throughout the world for pizza, pasta, and tomato sauce, the
national diet of Italy has traditionally differed greatly by region. Prior to the blending of
cooking practices among different regions, it was possible to distinguish Italian cooking
simply by the type of cooking fat used: butter was used in the north, pork fat in the center
of the country, and olive oil in the south. Staple dishes in the north were rice and polenta,
and pasta was most popular throughout the south. During the last decades of the twentieth
century (1980s and 1990s), however, pasta and pizza (another traditional southern food)
became popular in the north of Italy. Pasta is more likely to be served with a white cheese
sauce in the north and a tomato-based sauce in the south.
Italians are known for their use of herbs in cooking, especially oregano, basil, thyme,
parsley, rosemary, and sage. Cheese also plays an important role in Italian cuisine. There
are more than 400 types of cheese made in Italy, with Parmesan, mozzarella, and asiago
among the best known worldwide. Prosciutto ham, the most popular ingredient of the
Italian antipasto (first course) was first made in Parma, a city that also gave its name to
Parmesan cheese.
Italians generally eat three meals a day. Adults eat a light breakfast ( la prima colazione ),
often stopping at a coffee shop on their way to work for a caffellatte (coffee with milk) or
cappuccino with bread, butter, and jam, or cake. Lunch and dinner are similar meals. They
consist of an antipasto (an appetizer based on cold meats), a pasta or rice dish (depending
on the region) such as risotto, a main meat or fish course, a salad, and cheese and fruit.
Lunch ( il pranza or la seconda colazione ) is the main meal of the day for many Italians and
is eaten between noon and 2 P.M.
Whether eating at home or in a restaurant, Italians take food seriously. They prefer to dine
in a leisurely fashion, savoring their meals over a bottle of wine and conversation. Wine and
bread are always served during main meals. Even children are often allowed a taste of
wine. In southern Italy, where people take a long break during the hottest part of the day,
dinner ( la cena ) is served later than in the north, often after 7:30 P.M.
In addition to their main meals, Italians have two traditional snack times. Spuntini
(midmorning snacks) and the mid-afternoon merende . Both usually serve a type of bread
dough with toppings. Some typical merende are bruschetta (usually a long loaf of bread,
cut into slices and topped with seasonings), focaccio (an Italian flatbread), and crostini
(fried slices of polenta). Originally a rural tradition, these snacks lost popularity following
World War II as people migrated to
Italian cities. However, increased interest in traditional dishes and consuming healthy,
lighter meals has helped these snacks become popular again, even in the United States
France:
The baguette, a long, thin loaf of crusty bread, is the most important part of any French
meal. Everyone at the table is expected to eat a piece. It is eaten in a variety of ways,
including being used to make sandwiches. Melted cheese spread on a baguette is often
presented as part of a meal. A meal of grilled food (called la raclette ) is sometimes served.
Using an open grill, diners melt their own cheese with ham or beef slices, or fry their own
egg. The grilled food is accompanied by potatoes. Sometimes diners spear pieces of bread
on long-handled forks, and dip the bread into a pot full of melted cheese called la fondue .
The regions of France have varying cuisine: in Brittany (northwestern France), the main dish
is crêpes (thin pancakes) with cider; and in the Alsace region (eastern France near
Germany), a popular dish is cabbage with pieces of sausage, called la choucroute . The
French from the Loire River Valley eat a special dish made of the Lotte fish that can only be
found in the Loire River. On the coasts of France seafood is plentiful, including mussels,
clams, oysters, shrimp, and squid. The French enjoy escargots (snails) cooked with garlic
and butter, roast duck, and rabbit.Major French holidays/.. There are fireworks, dances,
and parties with picnics. Picnics almost always include fromage (cheese), such as
Camembert, brie, chevre (goat's milk cheese), or Roquefort.
For Christmas, the French have large feasts with many courses, which usually end with a
Bûche de Noël, or Yule log. This cake is shaped to look like a log of wood because of the
traditional French custom of lighting a real log at Christmas. On the first Sunday of January,
the Christian holiday, Epiphany, is celebrated, marking the three kings' visit to the newborn
baby Jesus. For this occasion, a special dessert called la galette des rois, is prepared. A small
token, either a bean or porcelain toy, is baked inside. Whoever finds the hidden bean or
porcelain toy in their piece gets to be king or queen for the day and wear a golden crown.
Traditionally, the king (the man who found the bean in his piece of cake) had to pick a
queen and present her with a gift. To avoid this obligation, the "king" would sometimes eat
the evidence. To solve this problem, in 1874 French bakers began putting collectible
porcelain charms in their cakes instead of beans.
When entertaining at home, the hosts pride themselves on making mealtime a memorable
and positive experience. For everyday lunches and dinners, four courses are typically
served: salad, main dish with meat, cheese with bread, and dessert. Bread and water are
always served. Special occasions include even more courses such as an appetizer of savory
pastries, or other finger foods. This is normally served with an alcoholic beverage, often
French wine. Several bottles of wine may be served with the meal. Coffee is also served.
6) To keep healthy we need to be active every day in as many ways as we can. Regular
physical activity isn’t just important for our physical health. It benefits our social and
emotional health too. Being active in small ways throughout the day can make a big
difference. You can also plan physical activity by doing things such as going to the gym or
playing sport. There are lots of everyday activities that provide an opportunity to be active
and provide health benefits. Make a habit of walking or cycling instead of using the car, or
do things yourself instead of using labour-saving machines. The human body was designed
to move but the technology of today has reduced much of the opportunity for human
movement. Sedentary lifestyle,take the stairs don’t use lift, dance …
7) Sport has always played an important role in our life. all over the world people of
different ages are very fond of sports and games. Firstly, sport helps people to become
strong and to develop physically. Secondly, it makes them more organized and better
disciplined in their daily activities. Also sport keeps your mind healthy. Sport helps people
to keep in good health. There are different types of sport: team, personal, martial arts,
indoor, outdoor, water,field,games … Among the sports popular in our country are football,
basketball, swimming, volley-ball, ice hockey, tennis, gymnastics, figure skating. A person
can choose sports and games for any season, for any taste. Sporting equipment, also called
sporting goods, has various forms depending on the sport, but it is essential to complete
the sport. The equipment ranges from balls, to nets, and to protective gear like helmets.
Sporting equipment can be used as protective gear or as tool used to help the athletes play
the sport.
8) In modern times the Olympic movement has become an enormous and expensive
organisation, It's controlled by the International Olympic Committee, which consists of
members from all the participating countries. The IOC is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It
chooses the locations of both summer and winter games (both take place once very four
years, with winter games half a year before summer Olympiads). It also controls the rules
of the competitions and selects new Olympic sports. The famous flag of the IOC shows five
rings of different colours linked together. The rings represent the five continents.
9) The popularity of extreme sports has continued to grow steadily over the last decades.
These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly
specialised gear. As we all know everything new is very attractive to us and new kinds of
sport are not exceptions. People become involved in different activities such as skydiving,
mountain biking, rock climbing and bungee jumping. People are fed up with basketball,
football, martial arts, these sports became generic. In any case, these activities are
definitely something new and interesting to sprawl out in the mainstream of sports. Why
do people take part in risky sports? I am pretty sure that there many reasons of that, but
the major one is shortage of the adrenaline. This hormone effects on our organism and we
feel this unbelievable feeling of thrill. It’s not a surprise that extroverts always need to do
risky things compared to introverts. This can be explained by the fact that tells us introverts
have fast brain activities and waves that requires less amount of hormone adrenalin. I can
exactly say that I’m not a daredevil and not a madcap, but If I had an opportunity to take
some risky activity, I would definitely choose bungee jumping. Bungee jumping is a game
where we jump from a tall structure using a long large elastic cord. The tall structure must
be a fixed object such as building, bridge, crane and so forth. It will be more possible if the
structure is movable. This is because people will get scared if the structure moving. To put
it in a nutshell, against the background of stresses, boredom and daily routine people
choose dangerous and extreme sports the possibility to express themselves, and to shale
their lives a little bit.
10) Health is the most precious thing that we have, that is why we have to do everything
possible to keep it. Unfortunately, nowadays many people do not take care of their health.
Very often they start realizing the value of health when they already have serious
problems, when it is too late… However, there are ways that can help us to prevent and
avoid many health problems. To start leading healthy lifestyle you should quit bad habits
and develop new useful habits. Useful habits:Move as much as possible, do physical
exercises;Be responsible and serious about your nutrition (try to eat healthy food only);Do
not overload your stomach with large amounts of food (it is better to eat only when you
really feel hunger).It is not very difficult to lead healthy lifestyle. Healthy style of life is free
opportunity to stay young and beautiful for a long time. Healthy style of life is health and
longevity, activity and cheerfulness