Soviet cafeterias its common to call them first course, second course and third course. First course is a soup. Second course includes meat and garnish. A drink in Russia is called third course. Its usually tea, coffee, juice or compote. Sometimes third course includes a dessert. The official time for dinner at work is usually from noon till 1 oclock PM. At home, for example on the weekend, dinner is usually later - at three or four oclock PM.
All family gathers together for supper and this is probably the longest and the nicest meal of the day. Supper usually starts near seven oclock PM and can last for some hours. They discuss the latest events at the table and members of family share their emotions with each other. Guests are usually invited for supper. At supper you have a wonderful opportunity to discover Russian cuisine.
So what do Russians eat? At first schi of course. Shi is a soup made from meat, cabbage, carrot, potatoes, tomatoes and onion. Add some sour-cream to it and youll get a delicious taste. Thats something that helps Russians to warm during the cold winter. Maybe many people havent heard about shi before, but everybody knows borshch. In fact borshch is shi with beet. Thats the main difference between these soups. Borshch is more often related to courses of the Ukrainian cuisine.
There is also traditional salad in Russia. Ask any Russian what salad it is and he or she will answer you in a moment. This is olivier! Russians prepare it on every holiday. It has become a great tradition here. This salad is sometimes called Russian salad abroad. And the name "olivye" has a French origin. Its strange but in Russia this salad is considered to be a course brought to Russia by a French man Olivier. Of course its hard to say if its tru
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