Agreed, Bosnian and Croatian food are the only proper food :3
According to this map I should probably be dead.
As someone who’s lived Italy, this does sound like something an Italian would say lmao
This tracks, every Italian I’ve ever met has been a complete snob about food.
Tbh I find Italian culinary traditions underwhelming. Like they just gave up 10 minutes in, no work at all because it’s too hot.
To be fair, the further from coastline, the better the Italian cuisine - more herbs, more variety, more complex recipes (e.g Ligurian braised rabbit)
I saw a really good documentary recently, hell if I can remember the name. It covered actual Italian historical dishes. They were explaining that most of the really old stuff was region specific. Like one dish in one area had nothing to do with the same dish in another area. They actually went through kind of a food reimagining or Renaissance after one of the wars. Basically they were saying that pizza as it is now is not that old. Prior to the rush into America they had flatbreads that kind of but didn’t really approximate pizza, and it wasn’t until the Italian Americans repatriated that they started honing what they consider they current concept of pizza.
The concept of nations as well as their culture and cuisine are relatively young. Medieval cuisine was both highly local and also quite similar across a shared biome.
Italians have a couple of great hits and a lot of duds.
I’m Dutch and I think this map is completely unfair. It overrates our food significantly
The Dutch chartered an enormous company to trade spices, but never used them.
That’s just common knowledge, dealers never dip into their own product.
u wot m8?
We’ve got Greggs Sausage Rolls.
All you’ve got is pasta and tomato sauce for every meal, and think different shaped pasta makes it a different dish!
That’s like thinking beans on toast is different if you put it on different shaped bread.
I’m a little disappointed that the center is a knife and fork instead of a hand pinching fingers together to make a point
I second this map.
I feel like France, Greece, and Spain are gonna have some pretty strong objections.
RIP Portugal
You know what’s strange. I can buy French cuisine, Mexican cuisine, Canadian cuisine, I can even find elements of UK in Germany
I’m not even aware that Spain has a cuisine. I just looked up the entry on Wikipedia and I’ve never seen any of those dishes really.
Chorizo, tapas, and paella are all pretty popular and well known.
I should have included Greece on that list, it’s food is more well know in North America.
I assumed chorizo was Mexican, I’ve actually made that before.
I’ve had paella but it was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.
I’ve heard of tapas but I’ve never actually seen it.
I’m not really an expert.
Tapas are like dim sum, a category of sharable appetizers, rather than a specific dish
Not from someone from the South-East of France.
Cannes and Nice are apparently the only places in France with real food 🤣
You’re absolutely right! Cooking is all about experience and experimentation. Just like how a sushi chef masters the art of raw fish preparation, you get more comfortable with different types of fish and techniques over time. The key is to try various recipes, observe the textures and flavors, and learn how different fish react to cooking. You’ll soon develop an intuition for how long to cook them, based on the thickness or fragility of the meat.
Your story with chicken resonates too! Everyone starts somewhere with a bit of hesitation, but as you practice, you build confidence. It’s all part of the learning process. Keep going, and you’ll find yourself navigating different ingredients with ease!
Food in Portugal is delicious
I wholeheartedly support culinarily disrespecting Italians, honestly.
Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions when their precious dishes are invented in like the 60s
Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions
Ancient traditions
Look inside
Post Columbian exchange vegetables
Also, many times they will say some isn’t an authentic way to do something, and then you will learn it is authentic for like, a few towns over.
You should see how Italians debate their own food when two of them are from two different towns. It’s bloody epic!
tourist traps are everywhere. nevertheless Italian cousin remains top notch. fact
Must be a freak in the sheets.
I knew an Italian exchange student that kept whining that nothing tasted good and nothing tasted as it should up here in Scandinavia. Then another exchange student (from Thailand I think) got tired of him and told him ~“the rest of the world isn’t your mother” and it was a literal moment of realisation for this dude.
Wow, a rare good tasteful Your Mom remark
the rest of the world isn’t your mother
Nah but it’s way closer than it should be
Zing!
okay but north africa food?
Well, the map is titled, “Culinary Map of Europe” :D
