Twice a day, we provide snacks for our
students—yogurt, fruit, vegetables, nuts, cakes, cookies. I’d imagined we’d have to limit the
children’s access to sugar, but I was
wrong. They are not very interested in
sweets, preferring vegetables and peanuts.
Although the Czechs make excellent pastries, the
basic Czech diet is low in sugar. When
we baked bread, my students thought it peculiar that I use a half cup of sugar
for two loaves of bread—hardly excessive in my mind. They would have used a single tablespoon,
only.
The
Czech diet is high in fat. However, obesity is far less prevalent than in
the US, possibly because Czechs walk so much. The favorite meat here is pork. Knowing this,
I prepared a lean pork broth for yesterday’s lunch. I threw in cabbage, carrots,
leeks, potatoes and turnip, since all these vegetables are popular here. The result, I gather, was more Chinese than
Czech. The students said they had never eaten anything like it. They thought it
odd I had skimmed off so much of the fat.
Roz, what an interesting observation. I heard before that Americans find European Pepsi or Cola to not be sweet enough. I guess the whole Europe might be still using less sugar and the USA much more. And yes, we walk more that in the USA. We usually have sidewalks everywhere. I hope you enjoy your weekend of well-deserved rest. I will be in Prague tomorrow morning again and I will see you on Monday. YAY!
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And I also wanted to say that I have been eating pork here since I arrived a month ago and I can't eat it anymore. So my mom is baking chicken for lunch today. YAY! Yes, we eat a lot of pork but I am not used to it anymore since I do not make it at all in the US and I think it is such a heavy type of meat. Lots of fat clogging your arteries.
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