MEALS
We have three meals a day: breakfast in the morning, lunch between 1 and 3 p.m. and dinner in the evening. We must cook our food. We boil eggs, meat, fish, vegetables, water, milk. We roast meat, vegetables. We stew fish, meat, vegetables and we stuff fish, poultry, vegetables. We make breakfast, lunch, dinner, also tea, coffee, cakes, bread and so on. We put salt, sugar, pepper, mustard and various spices into our food to make it salted, sweet, piquant. Food may have good food or bad taste; it may be tasteless. We pour out the tea, water, wine and other drinks and spirits. Tea and coffee may be strong or weak. We have our coffee white or black, that is, with or without milk. We butter the bread.
Dinner may consist of several courses, for example, we have a three-course dinner today. When people are at table they may ask their neighbour for something which they themselves cannot easily reach. In this case they say “Pass me..please,” or “I’ll trouble you for…” The neighbour says “Certainly,” and passes what they need. In answer to “Thank you” you say “You are welcome”.
When we lay the table we put napkins, cups, glasses, wine-glasses, saucers, tea spoons, soup spoons, forks, knives, soup plates, dinner plates, bread plates, a salt cellar, a pepper pot, a sugar bowl. When the meal is over we clear away the plates, dishes and cutlery and wash them up in the kitchen.
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