Browse cuisines.
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French Food
Unlike other cuisines of the world, French cuisine is codified, organized and set out in almost canonical terms — at least, the “grande cuisine” part of French cooking is. It’s owing partly to the politically centralized nature of France itself, and partly to the fact that writers and consumers alike of the “grande cuisine” treat…
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Raw Foods
Raw Foods is a special lifestyle diet whose adherents eat only uncooked food. The principle of Raw Foods is to ensure that enzymes and electrolytes in the food are eaten alive. You are advised that, given that these enzymes and electrolytes start to get killed off at 105 to 110 F (40.5 to 43 C),…
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Byzantine Food
This brief discussion on Byzantine food, far from in-depth, is designed to give some background to what is now classed as Greek and Turkish food. Byzantium, later named Constantinopole (in modern times: Istanbul), was a city on a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides. It’s important to be clear that the citizens called themselves…
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Lancashire Food
Lancashire is a county on the west coast of England, on the Irish sea. The county is smaller now that it used to be. The size was reduced politically in 1974. It used to include Manchester and Liverpool to the south, and northern bits of it were taken away and added to Cumbria. Some food…
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Byzantine Food
This brief discussion on Byzantine food, far from in-depth, is designed to give some background to what is now classed as Greek and Turkish food. Byzantium, later named Constantinopole (in modern times: Istanbul), was a city on a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides. It’s important to be clear that the citizens called themselves…
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Tex-Mex Food
The name “Tex-Mex” is a combination of “Texas” and “Mexico.” It’s used to describe a cuisine which is an Americanized form of Mexican cooking — or more precisely, Mexican food, largely from northern Mexico as it has come to be made in Texas. Or, as some wags have put it, Mexican food for gringos. The…
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Egypt (Ancient)
Ancient Egypt was around far longer than Rome — several thousand years compared to Rome’s short 1,000 years. Ancient Egypt, though, was static compared to the dizzying change of pace of Roman fashions and tastes. Consequently, both what was available as food, and what was preferred, did not change as much as it did in…
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American Food
A national or region cuisine? Some food writers say it can be argued that there’s no national cuisine in America: rather, it’s a collection of regional cuisines. Others counter that if that is true of America, then perhaps it’s true of other nations, too: — Chinese, Italian and French cooking is actually all incredibly regional….
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