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Old 10-25-2015, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Veal is actually considered exotic by some?

Go to a WalMart meat counter in the USA and ask for veal, see if there is anybody there who even knows what you are talking about.

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Many 'exotic' foods, such as citrus and bananas are nowadays usual even in a relatively poor country like Ukraine, but it doesn't make them part of Ukrainian cuisine, because they simply don't grow here.
There was no spaghetti nor tomatoes in Italy, either, before the fifteenth century. But now certainly part of the Italian cuisine.

The great trade routes and global shipping were developed primarily to transport spices to places where they didn't grow, to become part of all cuisines. Even salt was an expensive exotic in many places, right up to the last century, when a young Ghandi lead a protest against salt taxes and monopolies in India. And tea in colonial America. Would you say that only Cuba can claim to have sugary foods in its national cuisine, which would elsewhere be an exotic?

When I lived in Quebec, Poutine had not been invented yet, but now it is considered the definitive food of Quebec.

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Old 10-25-2015, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Kingdom of pain, Southern Europe
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Arigarisha.-
Indeed Ferran Adria is the most admired worldwire among people of his profession .And Bulli has
been the num 1 Restaurant for several years .There been studied chef around the World.
Get a table there was a matter of years.
Ferran today is preparing other culinay projects .
Today the restaurant num 1 international is CAn Roca and also in Spain.-
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The large cuisine is the result of a regional and popular cuisine and the immense variety of produts orchard and the sea that there is in Spain

A typical dish at El Celler de Can Roca

Oh my goodness, there's just too much food in there. You could fill an olympic pool with that much soup.

Last edited by Arigarisha; 10-25-2015 at 07:27 AM.. Reason: Also this forum really want me to learn Spanish. "Spanish verb chart mess!" Reads my favorite ad.
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Old 10-25-2015, 08:01 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Why should you import people?

And as a Japanese I don't you have any business dissing any other country's cuisine, as 99% of what you eat is absolutely revolting.
I love Japanese food.

I also have a friend who is Norwegian and she always has a big Christmas party and has tons of authentic Norwegian food shipped over. IT'S DELICIOUS.

Most cuisines have both great and revolting dishes. To each his own.
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Old 10-25-2015, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Go to a WalMart meat counter in the USA and ask for veal, see if there is anybody there who even knows what you are talking about.
Just so you know - veal is readily available throughout the US. Not everyone does their grocery shopping at WalMart.
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Old 10-25-2015, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Placitas, New Mexico
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Just so you know - veal is readily available throughout the US. Not everyone does their grocery shopping at WalMart.
Absolutely right. I can buy a variety of veal products at my local Albertson's.
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Old 10-25-2015, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Most cuisines have both great and revolting dishes. To each his own.
Apparently not, as the Moderator cut: <snip> suggested that Scandinavians are inherently unable to understand good food, as we would have to import people who know "how to eat".

It's especially funny coming from a person who eats seaweed, raw fish eyes and rice spiced with wasabi and semen.

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Old 10-25-2015, 10:49 AM
 
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Arigarisha.-
Can roca has other much stronger scrumptious dishes-

find them? ja ja.-
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Old 10-25-2015, 10:56 AM
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Why should you import people?

And as a Japanese I don't you have any business dissing any other country's cuisine, as 99% of what you eat is absolutely revolting.
Are you serious? There is a reason why Japanese food is popular around the world. Funnily enough I never heard of anyone liking Finnish (or Northern European food).
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Old 10-25-2015, 10:59 AM
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Okay Ariete... then I don't want to know what you could possibly think of our snails in butter and garlic and frog legs. Or veal, or brain, or "langue de boeuf"... I never tried those but my parents did.
Snails are really good! Frog legs taste like chicken (at least that what I thought).
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Old 10-25-2015, 11:02 AM
 
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Snails are really good! Frog legs taste like chicken (at least that what I thought).
I think there's more foreigners who had already ate snails than people in France. lol
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