Browse cuisines.
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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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Roman Food
Roman food mosaic. Vatican. 2005. © Sue Schenk This entry is about food in Rome, the ancient empire. There will be at some point a separate entry on food in modern-day Rome, the city. Rome was founded, historians believe, by 625 BC (though the Romans themselves believed their city was founded in 735 BC.) The…
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Turkish Food
Some people distinguish between Turkish food — the original nomadic food base from central Asia — and Ottoman Cuisine, the cuisine that absorbed the riches of Byzantine culture, plus all the other countries that were conquered and absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. In the latter viewpoint, Istanbul (the capital of Turkey) palace cooking is regarded…
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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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Japanese Food
Japanese Food is a very elegant cuisine. When anyone debates, “what are the great cuisines of the world”, Japanese has to be up there on the list. It even influenced the 20th century movement in France called “nouvelle cuisine”, in terms of both preparation and presentation. Japanese cooking has a larger number of ingredients served…
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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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Australian Food
Aussie Meat Pie © Paula Trites No strictly regional foods have developed yet in Australia, though there is the start of an awareness of local products. Many new dishes being created in Australia are a blend of Asian and Mediterranean cooking classes, but there is no new “common class” that has actually emerged yet; just…
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Turkish Food
Some people distinguish between Turkish food — the original nomadic food base from central Asia — and Ottoman Cuisine, the cuisine that absorbed the riches of Byzantine culture, plus all the other countries that were conquered and absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. In the latter viewpoint, Istanbul (the capital of Turkey) palace cooking is regarded…
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