Meal
Special meals are normally held in conjunction with celebratory or momentous occasions such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, and holidays.
Three main meals are typically eaten in the morning, early afternoon, and evening in most civilizations.
[4] The word breakfast literally refers to breaking the fasting period of the prior night.
[5] Breakfast foods vary widely from place to place, but often include carbohydrates such as grains or cereals, fruit, vegetables, protein foods like eggs, meat or fish, and beverages such as tea, coffee, milk, or fruit juice.
Coffee, milk, tea, juice, breakfast cereals, pancakes, waffles, sausages, French toast, bacon, sweetened breads, fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, baked beans, muffins, crumpets and toast with butter, margarine, jam or marmalade are common examples of Western breakfast foods, though a large range of preparations and ingredients are associated with breakfast globally.
It is especially popular in the UK and Ireland, to the extent that many cafés and pubs offer the meal at any time of day as an "all-day breakfast".
[7] Other regional variants across the UK include the 'full Scottish'in Scotland, 'full Welsh' in Wales, and the 'Ulster fry' in Northern Ireland.
[8][9][10] The full breakfast is among the most internationally recognised British dishes, along with such staples as bangers & mash, shepherd's pie, fish and chips and the Christmas dinner.
The target market for instant breakfast products includes consumers who tend to be busy, such as working adults.
Lunch is a meal typically eaten at midday; it varies in size by culture and region.
During the 20th century, the meaning in English gradually narrowed to a small or mid-sized meal eaten at midday.
Lunch boxes made out of metal, plastic or vinyl are now popular with today's youth.
Critics, however, criticise the meal deal for increasing the levels of single-use plastic waste in circulation and persuading people to buy more food than they originally intended or wanted - contributing to the growing obesity crisis.
This term is still used to signify that Sunday dinner is special even if no longer preceded by attendance at church.
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.
Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique economic, environmental and cultural traditions and trends.
