III. Read the following words: Harmonisation

Enthusiasm

Linguistic commentary:

Mrs. Beeton (1836–65) an English cookery writer, best known for her ‘Book of Household Management’.

Spotted dick – a heavy sweet boiled British pudding with currants (изюм) in it. It is thought of as a typical old-fashioned British food.

Rip Van Winkle – a person who is completely unaware of new ideas and fashions (from a character in a story by Washington Irving, who slept for 20 years and found the world very changed when he woke up).

Shepherd’s pie also cottage pie – a baked dish made of cut-up cooked meat covered with cooked potato.

Fisherman’s pie - a small round flat cake made of cooked fish mixed with cooked potato.

Corned-beef (солонина) 1. also bully beef – BrE a kind of pressed cooked beef in tins, which is cheap to buy and is sometimes thought of as typical army food; 2. AmE beef which has been completely covered in salt water and spices to preserve it. It has a dark colour when cooked and a taste different from ordinary beef.

Bubble-and-squeak – BrE potatoes and cabbage that have already been cooked and are then cooked together in fat.

Trifle – a British dish made of plain cakes set in fruit and jelly covered with cream and/or custard (BrE a yellow liquid for pouring over sweet foods, made of sweetened milk thickened with eggs and flour).

Pastry – a mixture of flour, fat, milk or water, and sometimes sugar, eaten when baked, used esp. to enclose other foods.

Ricotta cheese – a type of Italian cheese made from sheep’s milk, and often used in pasta (food made, in various different shapes, from flour paste) dishes, esp. with spinach.

IV. Complete the following sentences according to the text.

1. In recent years the soaring reputation of the best English restaurants...

2. Typical for England is the Bath School of Cookery, which...

3. The food grudgingly provided by most public houses in England used to be...

4. The same emphasis on culinary tradition and old-fashioned food is apparent at the Culinary Institute of America (cia)...

5. Visitors to the United States, as well as Americans themselves, are pleased to learn that this increased respect for tradition is...

V. Choose the sentences which correspond to the description of Bath School of Cookery and which correspond to the description of Culinary Institute of America (cia).

1. It is situated at Hyde Park in upper-state New York.

2. It occupies a comfortable 19th-century country house and is provisioned by a two-acre walled garden of herbs, fruit and vegetables.

3. It offers a number of courses, including a basic one that introduces students to dishes that would have been familiar to Mrs. Beeton, but which now come in a healthier guise.

4. Emphasis on culinary tradition and old-fashioned food is apparent there but with much greater emphasis on fewer calories and less cholesterol, salt, sugar and protein.

5. Students are reminded of the old tradition that cooking is about hospitality first, and then about food.

6. The traditional ways of doing things are drummed into students.

VI. Answer the questions.

1. What dishes are considered to be typically English and would have been familiar to Mrs. Beeton?

2. What dishes were provided by most public houses in England?

3. What dishes provide the main courses and what dishes are among the favourite desserts nowadays in many pubs?

4. What traditional ways of cooking are drummed into students at schools like Bath?

5. How do they avoid extreme calories and cholesterol in the CIA?

6. Would there be guests to feed without hospitality according to the

CIA teachers?

VII. Using the vocabulary given in the text speak about the dishes typical for British cuisine. Compare it with the Ukrainian one.