When it comes to beverages, water is nature's perfect gift. What is cheaper than water? What is more refreshing than water? What is more accessible than water? What hardly ever makes it to the dinner table in American households? Water!
I love water, so for me, moving toward water for dinner was easy. But for the rest of my family, not so much. Since we're on a super tight budget, I'm re-introducing something we picked up in Australia.
While we were living down under, one of the first things we noticed when dining out was that rather than bringing your table full glasses of water prior to ordering like most American sit down restaurants (pre-drought if you're reading this in the South), they would bring the table four empty glasses and a very nice glass bottle of chilled water.
Australia is of course an English commonwealth nation, populated largely by people of English decent, so I'm only guessing that ice was never high on their list of things to put out for dinner.
That being said, we absolutely fell in love with the practice. Most restaurants would simply wash out recyclable wine bottles and use them for serving water. We actually brought four of these home with us (pictured at left in my kitchen).
My kids love it, my wife loves it, and it adds a little sophistication to drinking "plain old" water!
2 comments:
That is such a cool little thing to know about Austrailian dining! My husband and I just recently implemented the water only rule at dinner. We are normally big tea and milk drinkers. My 6 year old loves milk...but the rest of us probably drink way too much tea. But heh, it least we are not soda drinkers!
You know it's funny, I used to love tea, heck I practically grew up on sweet tea - but since I've stopped drinking it, when I do taste it, the sugar knocks me over. I don't really like the taste of regular un-sweet tea either, but my favorite non alcohol dinner beverage besides water is the Arizona Diet Green Tea with Ginseng. I love that stuff!
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