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— How's your ice cream? Is it OK?
— Mmm! It's absolutely delicious! Just the way I like it.
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Food from animals includes meat, eggs, and dairy products. These foods cost more than foods from plants. As a result, foods from animals are eaten more in developed countries than in developing ones. Meat is usually heated before it is eaten. Heating makes it tastier and kills microbes that may cause illness. Meat is commonly eaten during the main part of a meal.
Chicken eggs are popular as a breakfast or supper dish, or they can be used in other cooked dishes. In some countries, people enjoy the eggs of such birds as emus, gulls, or penguins. People of various countries also eat the eggs of alligators, crocodiles or certain other reptiles.
Dairy products are important foods in many cultures. Cows give most of the milk used in the United States and Canada. But such animals as camels, goats, reindeer, and sheep give milk in other parts of the world. Milk and milk products get to the market in many forms. People can buy whole milk, low-fat milk, and condensed milk. Other products include butter, cheese, cream, ice cream, sour cream and yoghurt.
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Cooking is the preparation of food for eating by using heat. Cooking makes food more appetizing and easier to eat. It also kills bacteria that can cause illness. People throughout history used different methods of cooking.
People roasted meat over small open fires. Boiling appeared later than other methods of cooking because it needed a container for the water. People boiled food in leather, wood baskets and shells before metal containers were developed.
The ancient Egyptians cooked their food mostly over open fires. They also baked bread in ovens heated with burning wood.
In Ancient Rome, people cooked on brick fireplaces. They put large kettles over the
fire. They also baked bread in ovens.
During the Middle Ages, a period that lasted from the AD 400s to the 1500s, people in Europe used fireplaces for cooking. They heated food in a kettle and roasted meat over the fire. Only the wealthy had ovens in their homes.
Iron cookstoves, most of which burned wood, became popular in the early 1800s. Gas cookers began to be used in cities during the 1860s.
Electric cookers became popular in the 1930s.
Microwave ovens were introduced in the 1950s. As a result, cooking today is much
easier and faster than ever.
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Paf: OK, let's see. What do we need? Have we got any flour? Ann: Yes, we've got lots of flour. Here.
Paf: Good. We need some butter, too. Have we got any butter?
Ann: Some butter... butter... We've got a lot of milk. But butter... Ah, yes, here we
are. Pat: Excellent.
Ann: We've got six eggs. Do you want them?
Pat: Er... No. We don't need any eggs. Sugar?
Ann: Sugar... sugar... sugar. No! We haven't got any sugar.
Pat: Oh, no. I know. We can make...
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