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Task 4. Further insights into pubs






Express your opinion of the author’s remarks (agree / develop his idea / disagree / contradict etc).

       
   
 
 


Task 5. LET’S IMAGINE THAT …

If you visited a pub, what would you tell your friends about? Describe your imaginary visit to a pub (200-250 words).

A Variety of American Foods

The French are famous for their sauces, the Italians praised for their pasta, the Germans celebrated for their sausages, but is there anything unique to eat in the United States? When you get right down to it, there's nothing quite as un-American as American food. Because the United States is made up mostly of immigrants, there is an amazing variety of foods, from clam chowder in Boston to chile can carne in Houston. The United States is a vast country influenced by many cultures and climates, and the traditional food of one area is often totally unlike that of another. New Mexico and Massachusetts are good examples of states that have very different traditional foods.

To understand and appreciate the food in anyone region, it often helps to know the area's history. For example, New Mexico was once the home of the Pueblo Indians who lived in villages and grew native crops such as corn, beans, pumpkins, and squash. Later, Spanish settlers arrived in this area. These two groups exchanged ideas and customs and passed these customs on to their descendants. This intermingling of cultures is evident in the food of New Mexico.

New Mexican meals make much use of corn, which is served in a variety of ways – baked as tortillas, served fresh as corn on the cob, blended into soups and sauces, and mixed into salads or with other vegetables, especially red and green peppers. Native blue corn is quite surprising when it is served as blue corn bread, chips, or tortillas. In the markets of New Mexico, you can still find chicos, or sun-dried grains of toast sweet corn. Chicos last a long time, but when soaked and boiled, they taste almost like fresh corn. Many recipes also contain pinon or pine nuts, the small sweet seeds of the southwestern pine tree, once a staple food in the Pueblo diet.

A Spanish influence can be found in the sweet, anise-flavored cookies sold in New Mexican bakeries. They are prepared much like they were made in the kitchens of seventeenth-century Spain for the Christmas feast.

Some traditional foods of New Mexico that show both a native American and Spanish heritage include enchiladas (corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, onions, tomatoes, and chilies, and sometimes chicken or beef), pinto beans, black beans, and hot and spicy salsa, an uncooked vegetable sauce.

Take a trip to Massachusetts, however, and not a chili pepper or a tortilla will you find in a traditional meal. Influenced by the cold climate and the English-speaking people who settled there, the New England kitchen gives off the aromas of soups and stews and of meat that is roasted for hours in the oven. Potatoes, carrots, and turnips were popular because these root vegetables grew well in the region and could be stored all winter long in the days before supermarkets and refrigerators. English-style puddings and pies are traditional desserts rather than the fresh fruit one often gets in the Southwest.

Whereas beef and chicken appear in many New Mexican recipes, in Massachusetts fish, is very popular because of the nearby seacoast. New England is famous for its clam chowder, lobster, cod, scallops, and fish cakes. English herbs and spices are the seasonings used in New England dishes, which might taste rather bland to people accustomed to hot and spicy New Mexican food.

Each region of the United States is unique. Louisiana has a French influence. Many Germans populate the Midwest. In traveling around America, a tourist has the opportunity not only to visit a variety of places and see diverse landscapes, but to taste a variety of foods as well. Some may be very different. Others will taste just like home.

 

From " Making Your Point"

(English Learner’s Digest. – 2002. – №4. – p.11)

 

The Pub – A National Institution

The word 'pub' is instantly and universally recognized, a term of verbal shorthand. On the 'must-do' list of every visitor to Britain, alongside a ride on a red London bus or in a black taxi, will be a visit to a pub. Other countries have bars, cafes, but only Britain has its public houses, over 70, 000 of them in towns, cities, villages, and hamlets, with names that express the deep roots the institution has in the country's history, community, and culture. Many attempts have been made to export 'the English pub', often with risible results, but it flourishes only on its native soil.






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