1.	Food - eating habits

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UK

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USA

1.3

Canada

1.4	Australia and New Zealand

1.5	Czech Republic

2.	Eating out or in

3.	Pancakes recipe

“Australia and New Zealand

Australians and New Zealanders love food. Breakfast is normally cereal, fruit or toast; lunch is something small such as a sandwich, and tea. Dinner is the biggest meal of the day.
People still like to eat the traditional meals such as roast beef or chocolate pudding.
Australia has a lot of cattle and sheep, so beef and lamb are very popular. A typical meal that is served everywhere is a thick beef steak with green salad and chips.
Seafood is also very popular, especially mussels and prawns.
In both countries, they eat on a cold day a hot meat pie with tomato sauce.
People like to have barbeques. On a hot summer evening, people like to get together with family and friends and grill sausages, steak, even octopus together with bread and salad, and talk.

Many Australians and New Zealanders like to eat desserts and cakes. There are special Australian and N.Z. recipes for desserts and cakes.
The Lamington, a square cake covered in chocolate and coconut, or the Anzac Biscuit made from golden syrup and oats are perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. The Pavlova is a very popular dessert, too.

Czech Republic

For Czechs it is customary to eat a light meal in the morning and evening, and the biggest meal at lunch. A typical breakfast consists of yogurt, bread, rolls, cake, butter, jam, salami or cheese and tea or coffee.
Supper is often a cold plate of ham, cheese and bread.
Lunch is the main meal of the day. It begins with a hearty soup followed by a main dish of meat and potatoes or dumplings. Soups are either vegetable soups (potato, tomato, pea, bean, carrot, parsley, celery, mushrooms) or meat teas (beef tea, tripe, chicken, hen or goulash soup etc.). Some people cook fruit soups (e. g. strawberry soup). Typical Czech soup is kulajda soup - mushrooms and potatoes boiled in a little bit of sour cream soup.
The national dish is vepřo-knedlo-zelo. Pork, roasted to perfection, is served with sauerkraut and dumplings.
Svíčková is also very popular. This meal is a combination of pieces of tenderloin covered in a sweet creamy sauce, and served with sour cream on a slice of lemon, cranberry sauce and dumplings.
Goulash, the Czech version of the Hungarian dish, features equal portions of beef and onions cooked with spices and served with dumplings.
Řízek is breaded and fried pork. But the meat doesn’t have to be pork. Chicken is quite common, and it can also be veal. People usually have řízek with potatoes or potato salad.
Also famous are Spanish birds - rolled beef steaks filled with salami, pickle, egg and mustard
The main dish can be either sweet - e.g. strawberry or plum dumplings, pancakes with jam and cream, baked yeast dumplings, doughnuts etc.
Probably the most significant difference between Czechs and the rest of the world is beer. The Czech Republic is one of the largest beer producers in the world. In Czech restaurants, the cheapest drink on the menu is beer.
Wine bars often serve wines produced in Moravia or Bohemia.
The famous plum brandy or slivovice is a product of Moravia, while Becherovka and an herb liqueur, come from the spa town of Karlovy Vary.
All nations have their pub food, and the Czechs are no exception. Typical fare would be pickled sausage with onions, and pickled cheese with peppers.
The traditional Christmas meal is battered carp and potato salad.
The main fish cooked in our country is carp (it is a traditional Christmas meal - battered carp and potato salad) and trout."