In Sweden we often serve an appetiser, a main course and a dessert. That’s the most usual. (It’s divided into three rounds). First you serve the appetiser then the main dish. When we have our main dish we place all food on the same plate, it’s the most common, for example potatoes, meat or fish along with vegetables. We drink milk with our food, or if it’s a special occasion we serve vine or bear. In our country we cultivate a lot of potatoes, which we use for a lot of cooking. If you want to visit a restaurant it’s usual to order a three - course dinner. If you want to invite a few friends, or make your dinner a little more festive, you often make a three - course dinner at home. The most common dish in Sweden is ordinary everyday fare. Then you place all food on one plate and have a glass of milk. We drink a lot of milk in Sweden, always with our dinner during the weekdays. In summertime, when it’s hot outside, a glass of lemonade is the favourite. Examples of Swedish everyday fare are Falun sausage, meat balls and the classical “smorgasbord”, which is usual in Swedish homes. Along with this we often have potatoes, pasta or rice.

Italian restaurant culture is practically like Swedish. When you enter an Italian restaurant the waiters sometimes want you to wait for your placing. The waiter asks if you would like drinks, and the most usual drink in Italy is wine. In Italy you have two dishes, first an antipasto for example sausage or ham, sometimes also soup. After that, comes Primi piatti which is pasta or risotto. Pasta always counts as an appetiser in Italy! The third part is Secandi which is meat or fish; the main course. In Italy you select your own fittings. It’s called Contorni, like vegetables, pasta or whatever you want. Boiled potatoes don’t exist in Italy, and rice is very unusual. The dessert could be cheese, ice-cream or fruit. Tip is given like in Sweden, but if your tips are coins, it’s considered unpleasantly. A typical Italian dish is Spagetti Al tono, witch is spaghetti with tuna. Pasta e ceci; is pasta with chick-peas. An ordinary dessert in Italy is Panna cotta, it’s a dessert with cream and vanilla and caramel sauce on top. Pasta is very common in Italy. In the early 19th century pasta meets the tomatoes. And before that, the pasta had been eaten without any fittings. In 17th century tomato sauce was mentioned. You served the sauce with macaroni ore spaghetti.