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Cuisine

A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. Religious food laws can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. For example, the "Asian" dish chop suey clearly reflected the adaptation of Chinese immigrant cooking styles to the different ingredients available in North America.

Today almost every locale in the world has access to not only its traditional cuisine, but also to many other world cuisines, as well. New ciusines are constantly evolving, as certain aesthetics rise and fall in popularity among professional ciusine chefs and their clientele.

In addition to food, a cuisine is also often held to include beverages, including wine, liquor, tea, coffee and other drinks. Increasingly, experts hold that it further includes the raw ingredients and original plants and animals from which they come. The Slow Food movement is a global effort to preserve local plants, animals, and techniques of food preparation. It has 70,000 adherents in 50 countries.

There are also different cultural attitudes to food, for example:
In India, consumption of food is regarded as an offering, a Yajna. Thus the stomach is considered to be a homagunda (holy fire) and all the food consumed is an offering to the holy fire.

In Japan, Tea drinking is a fine-art and there is an elaborate ceremony about it. Not drinking tea in the right way is considered to be an act of barbarism.

The following section is an overview of world cuisnies. It is incomplete. It is organized roughly by geographical area, starting in the Western hemisphere and working Eastward and from North to South. Please help complete it.

: Canadian cuisines

• Cuisine of the United States

• List of American Foods

Chinese American
Barbecue
California
Fast food
Floribbean
Kentucky
Hawaii
Midwest
Native American
New England
New York City
Pennsylvania Dutch
Southern
Cajun
Creole
Soul food
• Southwestern cuisine
Tex-Mex

: Cuisine of the Caribbean

Cuba
Dominican republic
Jamaica
Puerto Rico

: Latin American cuisnie, Cuisine of South America

Argentina
Chimichurri
Brazil
Costa Rica
Mexico
Nicaragua:
Vaho
Churrasco
Peru
Venezuela
Pabellón criollo
Andes

: Cuisine of Europe

Cuisines of Northern Europe
Austrian
Belgium
British
Modern British
Denmark
Germany
Finland
French
Norway
Provencal
Hungary
Polish
Russian
Slovakia
Sweden

: Cuisine of the Mediterranean
Portugal
Spain
Catalonia
Italy excluding Sicily
Sicily
Lebanon
Cuisines of the Balkans
Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Greece
Romania
Turkey
Serbia
Armenia

: Cuisine of Africa
West Africa
Ethiopia
Morocco
South Africa

: Cuisine of the Middle East
Kosher cuisine
Lebanon
Persian cuisine
Arab cuisine

: Cuisine of India

: Cuisine of Asia
China
Chinese Buddhist
Cantonese
Chiuchow
Hakka
Hunan
Islamic
Mandarin
Shanghai
Szechuan
Taiwanese
Cambodia
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Laos
Malaysia
Penang
Ipoh
Mongolia
The Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Tibet
Vietnam

Cuisines of Oceania:

Australia
Hawaii
Fiji
New Zealand
Polynesia
Nauru

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