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1.34. Read this unusual menu and think of other national dishes. Try to describe them in a proper way to your foreign friend.

National fare

What’s what on the menu

ACHMA- Georgian noodle and cheese dish

BAKLAZHANNAYA IKRA – eggplant ‘caviar’

BARANINA – mutton

BITOCHKI – meatballs

BLINY – thin, leavened pancakes, crepes

CHAI – tea

CHICKEN TABAKA – flattened grilled chicken (Chicken Kiev)

DOLMA – meat-stuffed grape leaves

GOLUBTSY – cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat

GOVYADINA – beef

GRIBY – mushrooms

HACHAPURI – cheesy Georgian bread

KULEBYAKA – fish- or cabbage-stuffed pastry

KOTLETY – dish made of ground meat or vegetables

LAVASH – flat Georgian bread

LYULYA KEBAB – spiced ground mutton shashlik

LOSOSINA – salmon

PELMENI – Siberian meat-filled ravioli

PIROZHKI – stuffed doughy turnovers

PLOV – pilaf

SHASHLYK – shish kebab

SHCHI – cabbage / beet root soup

SMETANA – sour cream

SOSISKI – sausages

VARENIKI – Ukrainian fruit-filled ravioli

ZHARKOE – beef stew

JULIENNE – mushrooms baked in sour cream

1.35. Work in a small group. Discuss the following topics.

1. My usual menu for breakfast/ lunch/ dinner.

2. The most popular dish in Russia/ The Russian staple food.

3. Food I avoid eating.

4. My favourite food.

5. The most beautiful/ my favourite café /restaurant in my city.

6. The market places in my city.

7. The dishes my family prefer on an ordinary day/ on a holiday/ for a party.

8. Popular diets (based on calorie-counting, blood group, etc.).

1.36. A) Comment on the following proverbs and sayings about food and dieting. Which one do you like best? Why? Which one do you disagree with? Explain your choice.

Citations about food and dieting:

  1. [Food is] part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories. (Beverly Baxter)

  2. [Food is] a weapon. (Maxim Litvinov)

  3. What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. (Lucretius)

  4. [Food is that which explains] half the emotions of life. (Sydney Smith)

  5. [Food is] the commonest cause of domestic strife. (Anonymous)

  6. [Dieting is an activity which] shows what bad losers we all are. (MichaelCohen)

  7. [Dieting is] a change that not even a healthy man can suffer. (Michel de Montaigne)

  8. [Dieting is] a system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer. (Jan Murray)

  9. [A gourmet is] a glutton in a dress suit. (Shannon Carse)

  10. [A gourmet is] one who eats himself into the grave. (12th century proverb)

b) Think of situations which the following proverbs might suit.

  1. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”.

  2. “You cannot eat your cake and have it”.

  3. “Hunger is the best sauce”.

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