Browse cuisines.
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Chinese Food
Cooking hasn’t been codified into an art or a noble activity in China, the way it became in France. Restaurants might become well-known known, but there is still no equivalent of a “Michelin Star” system in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, and there hasn’t been a system of “celebrity chefs.” In fact, a respect for…
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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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Norwegian Food
About two-thirds of Norway’s land-mass is mountains; only 5% of the land is arable. In the north of Norway, the growing season is 100 days; in the south, 190 days. The days are long, though in a Norwegian summer: the sun will rise as early as 2 to 3 pm, and stay up until around…
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Italian Food
Perhaps more than any country, it’s hard to say of Italy that there is a national cuisine. While it is also hard to say this of France, Italy has had far more history and civilisations roll through it, with each leaving small pockets of themselves behind in their wake. Nor has Italy ever had the…
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Mexican Food
Mexican food is fusion food. It’s a blend of Spanish, other European and even Mennonite traditions tossed in with the indigenous food and cooking traditions. While Mediterranean food was founded, though, on the trinity of wine, bread and the olive, the foundation for Mexican food is corn, beans and squash. Mexicans didn’t stop eating what…
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New Zealand Wartime Food
New Zealand (NZ) introduced rationing during the Second War World, largely in order to create a surplus of food that it could use to feed its British and American allies. It was in a way the mirror image of British wartime rationing: in Britain, the rationing was to deal with shortages. In New Zealand, the…
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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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Scottish Food
Scots get tired of their food being summarized as haggis, whiskey, deep-fried Mars bars, and shortbread in tartan tins. Yet there is something to it. Haggis is oatmeal and offal, both of which the Scots both eat a lot. Scots are very proud of their whisky (which they spell without an “e.) And as for…
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