czech_food

CZECH FOOD AND ITS PREPARATION

Importance of food in the Czech Republic is different in every family. But I thing it isn’t too much important also in Britain. But for some people in our country food, eating, sometimes also cooking is a downright pleasure. We eat more than the British or American and our food is known to be less healthily. The Czechs are used to eating many floury, sweet and fatty meals, such as dumplings, pastry, fat pork and sausages. Traditional Czech cuisine is however a bit unhealthy and people can get fat. But we are beginning to cook health meals. Many families prefer to cook more vegetable meals; they become vegetarians or try some kind of foreign (Chinese ...) food. We eat more vegetable and fruit, too. We can go in restaurant with Chinese, French, Italian…meats. In supermarket we can buy everything: fruits, vegetables, ingredients for cooking, rice…which is transporting from other countries. Pork and beef is being replaced by poultry and fish. The main fish cooked in our country is carp (it is a traditional Christmas meal – battered carp and potato salad) and trout.

Czech main meal of the day is lunch, unlike in England where it is dinner. It is usually a two-course meal which consists of soup and the main course and then something to drink and salad or dessert. Most people take their meals at the school canteen, or local canteen, but some people prefer going to a restaurant or having fast food in McDonalds, because they don't have time for, they are in stressful and they have bad way of living…it’s wrong! But on weekend we cook the meat at home, sometimes, in important occasion we go to restaurant. For dinner Czechs eat cold dish. Someone has got warm meals. We can cook a ready-made dish from a tin or have soup or potato pancakes and we put it into the microwave. The Czech tradition food (and for some people is always favorite) was pork with dumplings and cabbage. It is not very good for health