SWITZERLAND FOOD....

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SWITZERLAND FOOD....

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BY MEGAN MARTHA
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BASIC FOOD ITEMS....

• Food, ingredients and the way to prepare it
  varies greatly all over the country. Generally
  speaking, basic food items include a huge
  selection of bread (white, whole wheat etc.),
  dairy products such as milk, yogurt, butter and -
  of course - a great variety of the world famous
  Swiss cheese. Also important are vegetables
  including beans, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes,
  spinach etc. Sausages and meat - mainly veal,
  beef, pork, chicken or turkey - are served in
  many different ways grilled, cooked, sliced or
  cut. Side dishes include French fries, rice,
  potatoes and different types of pasta. Fruits are
  available from all over the world, locally grown
  fruits include apples, pears, grapes and
  different types of berries, such as black
  berries, blueberries, raspberries, red currants
  and strawberries. Finally, there are a lot of
  sweets, including the second type of food that
  Switzerland is world famous for Swiss chocolate.

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WHAT PEOPLE EAT AND DRINK....

• In Switzerland, breakfast typically includes
  bread, butter or margarine, marmalade or honey,
  maybe some cheese or cereals, plus milk, cold or
  hot chocolate, tea or coffee.Lunch may be as
  simple as a sandwich or a birchermüesli or it
  could be a complete meal.Depending on what
  people had for lunch, dinner can be a full main
  course or just some bread, cheese, maybe some
  dried meat or any other light meal.Drinks range
  from plain water, over different types of soft
  drinks including most internationally well known
  brands plus some local products, to a great
  variety of beers and wines. Hot drinks include
  many different flavors of tea and coffee.

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GOING OUT TO EAT....

• There are many different places to go out to eat
  in Switzerland. It starts with fast food, such as
  burger, fish and chips etc., continues with self
  service restaurants and what people in the U.S.
  use to call a family restaurant where you get all
  the regular menus and ends with spectacular (and
  very expensive) restaurants, where to eat is
  supposed to be an "experience".

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• Food is quite expensive in Switzerland, at least
  compared to most European countries and
  especially compared to the U.S. If you go to a
  fast food place, you may easily spend up to
  CHF 10 for a burger, a soft drink and a coffee.
  In a family restaurant, a menu will cost
  somewhere between CHF 15 and 50, self service
  restaurants are somewhat less expensive. At a
  more fancy restaurant, one can spend as much as
  CHF 1000 just for a bottle of wine ...

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• Common menus include a great variety of pasta,
  potatoes prepared in many different ways,
  vegetables, meat (veal, beef, pork, chicken and
  even horse), fish (mainly fresh water fish), but
  also sea food. Vegetarian menus have become more
  popular during the last few years, most
  restaurants provide at least one vegetarian menu
  as a main course. In addition, salad is very
  popular as well. The most important part of
  course is desert. This includes cheese, but even
  more important any flavor of cakes or cookies

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DECORATED TABLES....

• Swiss people do not only love good food, they
  also appreciate a beautiful decorated table, like
  the table shown on the left, decorated for a
  Christmas dinner.

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HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND...

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• Originally inhabited by the Helvetians, or
  Helvetic Celts, the territory comprising modern
  Switzerland was conquered by Julius Caesar during
  the Gallic wars and made part of the Roman
  Empire. It remained a Roman province until the
  4th century AD. Under Roman influence, the
  population reached a high level of civilization
  and enjoyed a flourishing commerce. Important
  cities, such as Geneva, Basel, and Zurich, were
  linked by military roads that also served as
  trade arteries between Rome and the northern
  tribes.

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• After the decline of the Roman Empire,
  Switzerland was invaded by Germanic tribes from
  the north and west. Some tribes, such as the
  Alemanni in central and northeastern Switzerland,
  and the Burgundians, who ruled western
  Switzerland, settled there. In 800, the country
  became part of Charlemagne's empire. It later
  passed under the dominion of the German emperors
  in the form of small ecclesiastic and temporal
  holdings subject to imperial sovereignty

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• In 1291, representatives of the three forest
  cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden signed
  the Eternal Alliance. This united them in the
  struggle against "foreign" rule by the Hapsburgs,
  who then held the German imperial throne. At the
  battle of Morgarten in 1315, the Swiss defeated
  the Hapsburg army and secured quasi-independence
  within the German Empire as the Swiss
  Confederation

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• Under the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, European
  countries recognized Switzerland's independence
  from the Holy Roman Empire and its neutrality. In
  1798, armies of the French Revolution conquered
  Switzerland. The Treaty of Vienna and the Second
  Peace of Paris in 1815 re-established Swiss
  independence, and the powers participating in the
  Congress of Vienna agreed to recognize Swiss
  permanent neutrality.

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• Switzerland adopted a federal constitution in
  1848, modeled in part on the U.S. Constitution.
  The Swiss amended their Constitution extensively
  in 1874, establishing federal responsibility for
  defense, trade, and legal matters. Since then,
  continued political, economic, and social
  improvement has characterized Swiss history. The
  Swiss did not participate in either world war.

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