The article analyzes the importance of getting to know foreign language phraseology, which contains gastronomic and culinary vocabulary, for understanding the national mentality and national traditions. It is explained why in teaching a foreign language and culture it is expedient and important to organize the acquisition of stable expressions that reflect the food culture of the French and the British: phraseological units reflect certain civilizationalprocesses, sociocultural realities, and the way native speakers think. Attention is focused on the peculiarities of the origin and the possibilities of semanticization of fixed expressions. The ways of didactic exploitation of the phraseological material dealing with gastronomic and culinary topics in teaching foreign languages and cultures are specified.
Melnyk et al. (Tue,) studied this question.