Exercise 2

Which of these foods do you eat at home, at the restaurant, at the barbecue? Divide them into three categories.

appetizer, -iser (infml – starter); hors d’oeuvre (usu pl); main course (entré e); side dish; dessert; Ukrainian borsch with pampushkas; braised beef; broth(soup); stock (soup); cabbage salad; cabbage soup; zander in aspic; fish rolls, meat ~; egg ~; goulash; headcheese; scalloped fish with vegetables; hot dog; jellied meat, ~ fish; liver sausage; blood ~; mixed salad; Russian ~; onion, tomato, potato soup; porridge / gruel; radish and egg salad; roast turkey; potted beef with mushrooms; shish kebab; Siberian dumplings; stuffed duck; ~ tomatoes; mushroom yushka with galushky; roasted duck with apples; home-made sausage with onion; grilled chicken; Ukrainian Honey Cake; biscuits; jelly; pudding; baba au rhum; baked cheese; chocolate; cookies; é clair; ice-cream; Khreshchatic Cake; pancakes; pastry; prunes stuffed with nuts; varenyky.

Exercise 3

Fill in the correct prepositions where necessary:

What is the choice of dishes at public eating places?

It depends …… the place: some have a wide choice …. delicious and nutritious dishes …. their menu. They have various salads and hors d’oeuvres: cabbage, carrot, apple and green pepper salad, carrot and green pea salad, radish and egg salad, stuffed tomatoes or cucumbers, herring, zander … aspic, stuffed zander, chicken pasta, cold stuffed chicken, etc.

The first course is less varied: Ukrainian borsch …. pampushky, yushka, mushroom yushka with galushky, etc.

The main course can include … scalloped fish …. vegetables, fish rolls, crucian carp baked … sour cream, braised beef …. prunes, scalloped beef, potted beef … mushrooms, meat rolls, stewed lamb, roast duck …. apples, home-made sausage …. onion, varenyky …. cottage cheese, cabbage rolls stuffed …. minced meat, tomatoes stuffed …. mushrooms, cauliflower fried … butter, etc.

Dessert and flour dishes are delicious: apples with cottage cheese stuffing, whipped cream jelly, Khreschatyk Cake, Ukrainian Korovai, etc. … some places you can eat … your heart's content.

Nevertheless, there are many public eating places which are criticised … monotonous menus, poor cooking and service and exorbitant prices.

& Reading

Where would you prefer to go to have a snack / to have supper with your boyfriend (girlfriend) / to eat and have some fun?

Read the following texts. Explain the meaning of the underlined phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.

At the Restaurant

The Old Mill,

The Quay, Wardleton, Sussex

Open: Tuesday-Sunday

P.m.

This week we decided to look at a small family-run restaurant in the village of Wardleton. 'The Old Mill' is newly opened and overlooks the River Wardle, and we had heard several favourable comments about it. Because we had been advised to book early, we managed to get a nice table with a view of the quay. We were made very wel­come and the service was excel­lent because it is a small family business. The proprietor, Jeff Dean, runs the kitchen himself and his wife, Nelly, showed us to our table.

Although the choice of items on the menu was very exten­sive, it was rather traditional. A long menu always worries me, because a large menu often means a large freezer! We started with Wardle Trout and although it was fresh, it was spoilt by the number of herbs. For my main course I chose the pepper steak, which was the speciality of the day. I thought it was almost perfect because the chef had chosen excellent meat and it was cooked just long enough.

My wife ordered the roast lamb, and although the quality of the meat was good, she thought it was a little under­done. Though the vegetables were fresh, they came in very small portions and were rather over-cooked for our taste. However, the bread was fresh because it had been baked on the premises. I have often com­plained in this column about the difficulty of finding any res­taurant which serves a fresh fruit salad. Luckily, this one did. Even though it must have been very time-consuming to prepare, it was a delight to see, and I had a second helping.

As usual I chose house wine, as this is often the best way to judge a restaurant's wine list. It was a French-bottled table wine which was quite satisfactory and reasonably priced. The bill, including coffee and bran­dy, came to $37, which was acceptable for the class of res­taurant, although that did not include service.