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New Zealand cuisine

New Zealand is an agricultural country, one of main branches of it is cattle-breeding. That’s why meat especially pork, mutton and beef cooked with herbs, (many of them local), and spices make the national cuisine. Forests in the country are still rich in game which is also widely used for cooking. Let’s not forget that New Zealand is surrounded by sea waters, so it’s quite understandable that people of the country have many fish dishes. They are also known to like mussels and oysters. The rivers inside the country provide fresh-water fish.

They eat seven times a day in New Zealand: first, just in bed after awakening – a cup or two of tea with toasts and butter; breakfast comes at about 8 o’clock and consists of fruit, bread, eggs, bacon and tea. Around 11 o’clock they have tea again with a roll or sandwich; 1 p.m. is time for lunch made of chopped meat or sausages, vegetables and toasts. Then comes afternoon tea with biscuits and different kinds of cheese; in the evening – sufficient dinner: soup, stewed beef or mutton, pudding or fruit salad and later supper consisting of some cold meat or some lobsters in mayonnaise. All dishes are strongly spiced. As for strong drinks, they drink much beer and whiskey. Surely, the country is very rich in fruit and berries. This blackberry jelly is a kind of national dish.