Part of the Meals series

Common meals...

Breakfast

Second breakfast

Elevenses

Brunch

Tiffin

Lunch

Tea

Dinner

Supper

Dessert

Snack

See also...

Cuisine | Kitchen Meals image This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Breakfast is the first meal of the day, preceding lunch or dinner and is eaten in the morning. ... Second breakfast is a meal eaten after breakfast, but before lunch. ... In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning. ... Brunch is a late morning meal between the typical time for breakfast and lunch, as a replacement for both meals, usually eaten when one rises too late to eat breakfast, or as a specially-planned meal. ... Tiffin is an Indian and British term for a light meal eaten during the day. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Tea (the meal, as opposed to the beverage), means different things in different countries. ... An amount of formality may be present at a dinner Dinner is the main meal of a day, normally cooked food consisting of animal proteins and starch products like rice, noodles, or potatoes. ... Supper is the evening meal - ordinarily the last meal of the day. ... A selection of desserts Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a dinner, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses. ... Assorted snacks, including many varieties of candy. ... A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning cooking; culinary art; kitchen; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

For the coarsely ground flour, see flour.

A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In general terms, eating (formally, ingestion) is the process of consuming something edible, i. ...

Meals occur primarily at homes, restaurants, and cafeterias, but may occur anywhere . Regular meals occur on a daily basis, typically several times a day. Special meals are usually held in conjunction with such occasions as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and holidays. Look up home in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ... One of a number of cafeterias at Electronic City campus, Infosys Technologies Ltd. ... A childs first birthday party For other uses of the term, see Birthday (disambiguation). ... Nubian wedding with some international modern touches, near Aswan, Egypt Preparing for the photographs, at a wedding in Thornbury Castle, England A traditional Japanese wedding ceremony A wedding is a civil or religious ceremony which celebrates the beginning of a marriage. ... Married persons who regard the date of their marriage as important may mark the anniversary of their wedding in some special way. ... The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. ...

A meal at the court of Emperor Ferdinand I, 1558.

A meal is different from a snack in that meals are larger and more filling, while snacks are more likely to be small, high-calorie affairs; however, any food eaten in small amounts at an unscheduled time can be classified as a snack. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2507x1714, 1489 KB) Krönungsmahl Ferdinand I. (Holy Roman Emperor) im Frankfurter Römer 1558, aquarellierte Federzeichnung, today Nuremberg Staatsarchiv Handschrift Nr. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2507x1714, 1489 KB) Krönungsmahl Ferdinand I. (Holy Roman Emperor) im Frankfurter Römer 1558, aquarellierte Federzeichnung, today Nuremberg Staatsarchiv Handschrift Nr. ... Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (March 10, 1503 - July 27, 1564) was one of the Habsburg emperors that at various periods during his life ruled over Austria, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary. ... Events January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ...

A picnic is an outdoor meal where one brings one's food, such as a sandwich or a prepared meal in a picnic basket. It often takes place in a natural or recreative area, such as a park, forest, or beach. On long drives a picnic may take place at a road-side stop such as a rest area. Friends and family gather for a picnic in a public park in Columbus, Ohio, c. ... An Italian sandwich. ... A picnic basket is a basket or other container intended to hold food and tableware for a picnic meal. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... Eucalyptus Forest at Swifts Creek in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... Rest area on northbound Interstate 81 at milepost 262 in Rockingham County, Virginia. ...

A banquet is a large, often formal, and elaborate meal with many guests and dishes. State Banquet. ...

A multicourse meal

Most multicourse meals follow a standard sequence, with each course interacting harmoniously with those that introduce and follow it. There are variations depending on location and custom. The following is a common sequence for multi-course meals: In the sense used in philosophy and the social sciences, a convention is commonly seen as a set of widely agreed or accepted rules or customs. ...

1. The meal begins with a thin or thick soup course, such as a bisque, gazpacho or chowder. Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. ...

2. This is followed by alternating entreés (according to North American usage of the term)— hearty courses such as meat or whole fish— and relevés (lighter courses), each with some kind of vegetable. Whether there is one or multiple entreés and relevés, this is considered the "main course" or central part of the meal.

3. Next comes the salad course, although "salad" may often refer to a cooked vegetable, rather than the greens most people associate with the word. According to the Joy of Cooking, greens serve "garnish duty only" in a salad course. Note that in the United States, the salad course (usually a green salad) is usually served at some point before the main course. Salad Platter Salad is a term applied broadly to many food preparations that are a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. ...

4. Salads are often followed by the penultimate course— a cheese selection, accompanied by an appropriate selection of wine. Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ...

5. Finally, the meal culminates with entremets, or dessert, either hot or cold, sometimes followed with a final serving of hot or cold fruit and accompanied by a suitable dessert wine. A selection of desserts Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a dinner, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses. ... Dessert wines are those wines which are typically served with dessert, although they are also drunk on their own, i. ...

Sorbet or other palate cleansers might be served between courses. A bowl of mango sorbet Sorbet (or sorbetto, sorbeto) is a frozen dessert made from iced fruit puree and other ingredients. ... The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and vertebrate animals. ...

Before the meal, a host might serve a selection of appetizers or hors d'œuvre with appropriate wine or cocktails, and after the meal, a host might serve snacks, sweets such as chocolate, coffee, and after-dinner drinks (cognac, brandy,liqueur, or similar). These are not considered courses in and of themselves. Appetizer has several meanings: Appetizer is another name for Hors dÅ“uvre, a meal served before the main dishes of a meal. ... Crudités variés, a typical hors dÅ“uvre in French cuisine Hors dÅ“uvre(s), (IPA: ), also known as appetizer(s), refer to the food served before or outside of (French: hors d) the main dishes of a meal (the Å“uvre). ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of the juice of fruits, usually grapes. ... A cocktail. ... Assorted snacks, including many varieties of candy. ... Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration. ... A cup of coffee // Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. ... Cognac is a commune in the French département of Charente, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Brandy pot stills at the Van Ryn Brandy Cellar near Stellenbosch, South Africa Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—burning wine) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. ... Bottles of strawberry liqueur A liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage, often flavoured with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. ...

However, an appetizer or entrée (according to the British usage of the term) served at the dinner table might also be the first course, either replacing the soup course entirely, or served prior to the soup. For the university exchange program ENTREE, see European Network for Training and Research in Electrical Engineering. ...

Customs, tradition, and etiquette

Customs and traditions regarding eating and meals vary from country to country, as well as within countries, based on such factors as regional differences, social class, education, and religion. In a complex, multi-cultural society there is increased risk of different customs and traditions clashing. What is correct behaviour, and what is not, and in what circumstances is the provenance of etiquette. In the sense used in philosophy and the social sciences, a convention is commonly seen as a set of widely agreed or accepted rules or customs. ... The word tradition, comes from the Latin word traditio which means to hand down or to hand over. ... This article describes country as a type of geographical or political entity. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. ... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ... Etiquette, also known as decorum, is the code that governs the expectations of social behavior, the conventional norm. ...

Examples of different customs and traditions:

• Food in some cultures is eaten from individual plates or bowls, while in other cultures people eat from a common one. Even where people tend to eat from individual plates, there may be exceptions, as in the case of some small pieces of food that can be held in the hand easily, such as cookies or some snack foods, where it is common to eat from a common plate, biscuit tin, or similar container.
• Different cultures might have different rules for eating the same item. In the USA people eat sausages in a bun, or with a knife and fork, while in some countries in Europe sausages are held between the fingers while being eaten.
• In some cultures, it is considered proper to wait until everyone is seated before starting to eat, while in other cultures it is not an issue.
• In some cultures it is considered proper to wait for the host to give the command before guests sit at the table for a meal, while in other cultures there are different rules.

• In some religions, people pray or read aloud from a religious text before and possibly also after eating. In diverse, religiously mixed company where some people might want to pray, and others might not, it may be proper etiquette to allow for a short time of silence allowing those who want to do so the chance to pray.

Plate has several meanings: A plate electrode in a vacuum tube. ... A salad in a bowl sits next to a small pie Chawan, drinking bowls used in a Japanese tea ceremony The bowl, a common open-top vessel in many cultures, is used to serve food, and is sometimes also used for drinking and storing other items. ... A chocolate chip cookie In the United States and Canada, a cookie (sometimes spelled cooky) is a small, flat baked pastry. ... Assorted snacks, including many varieties of candy. ... Mary Magdalene in prayer. ... Etiquette, also known as decorum, is the code that governs the expectations of social behavior, the conventional norm. ...

Daily meals

Standard meals eaten on a daily basis have different names depending on the time of day or the importance of the meal:

• Breakfast is usually eaten within an hour or two after a person wakes up in the morning.
• Elevenses is a drink and light snack taken late morning after breakfast and before lunch.
• Brunch is a late-morning meal, usually larger than a breakfast and usually replacing both breakfast and lunch.
• Lunch is a midday meal may also be classified as dinner outside the US.
• Dinner can be at any time of the afternoon or evening and usually denotes the main meal of the day; sometimes it is at lunchtime and sometimes at suppertime.
• Tea is usually a midafternoon meal consisting of light fare with tea. Outside the US, tea may refer to the evening meal (dinner).
• Lupper is a midafternoon full meal that usually replaces both lunch and supper. Known best by late risers and shift-workers.
• Supper is usually an evening meal.
• Bedlunch is a late evening and light meal (if one is going to bed before midnight), usually succeeding Lupper.

At work, a coffee break is often taken by workers as part of the work day. How many of these coffee breaks one takes in the day varies, but two short breaks in an eight-hour day seems to be the norm in North America. A coffee break may last as little as ten minutes or as long as half an hour, but fifteen minutes seems to be the norm for office workers. In North America and other parts of the western world, coffee is generally regarded as the universal workplace beverage; It seems that nearly every workplace has some sort of access to a hot cup of coffee. Breakfast is the first meal of the day, preceding lunch or dinner and is eaten in the morning. ... In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning. ... Brunch is a late morning meal between the typical time for breakfast and lunch, as a replacement for both meals, usually eaten when one rises too late to eat breakfast, or as a specially-planned meal. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... An amount of formality may be present at a dinner Dinner is the main meal of a day, normally cooked food consisting of animal proteins and starch products like rice, noodles, or potatoes. ... Tea (the meal, as opposed to the beverage), means different things in different countries. ... Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ... Supper is the evening meal - ordinarily the last meal of the day. ... A coffee break is a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry. ...

See also

• Airline meal
• Cuisine
• Food
• Full English breakfast
• List of eating utensils
• List of nutrition related topics
• Microwave meal
• Nutrition
• Potluck
• Tea (meal)
• TV dinner