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Well, that's the sad thing about Italian cuisine--there is plenty of diversity outside of pasta that Italy has but what's cemented itself in the US is mostly the pasta and red sauce based parts of it. A rich risotto or a pasta dish based on a roux, pesto, or just tossed peppercorns and butter is fairly rare in the US. Polenta-based dishes are also terribly under-appreciated.
The same goes with (and is magnified) for large countries like China and India whose dishes are wildly different from one region to another. Indian cuisine in the US is mostly a fairly narrow band of northern Indian food while Chinese cuisine in the US is usually a strongly modified form of southern Chinese cuisine with a few additions of northern Chinese cuisine staples done in a southern style. I'm particular to Chinese cuisine, especially that of the northwest, sichuan and far northwest (basically hybridized turkic for the latter) cuisine which gets far less notice here in the states, but is often so much more varied than the greasy kung pao chicken etc. that you get in most Chinese take-outs in the US--we are talking about some seriously delicious and varied foods.
You're right. It's not fair to make a blanket statement of the food. I have been to italy and have also (obviously) had much of the Italian food here in the US. I wouldn't list it in my favorites regardless, but there are many flavors and ingredients I do love and meals I prepare at home myself.
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I thought i could only vote 1, and i voted Mexican, but i should have voted Italian. Argentina cuisine is mostly italian, all my family is italian, and my grandmother that never learned a word of spanish (lol) cooked us some DELICIOUS food all through my childhood. Awesome.
My picks will be
Italian
Mexican
Chinese
Greek
French
Peruvian
Argentinian! This definitely is up there for me, by ways of the meat offerings (entrana *drool). I have to add Brazil to this list for that as well. Both cases, I have eaten food in the country itself (Brazil multiple times) and love love love it. I did live in Latin America for a couple years and may be biased to these flavors as well.
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I am not surprised Italian, Thai, Indian, and Chinese are in the top 5 most voted so far.
However, I am surprised that Mexican is in the top 5 and in second place.
It seems interesting that Indonesian is tied with German so far, and also that Peruvian/Spanish food is so far below Mexican.
Most votes in the "Other" category people probably voted for Ethiopian, Tibetan/Nepalese, and Malaysian. It seems possible that there could have been more votes in the Other category, and for that to be 6th-8th place in the ranks.
I am not surprised Italian, Thai, Indian, and Chinese are in the top 5 most voted so far.
However, I am surprised that Mexican is in the top 5 and in second place.
It seems interesting that Indonesian is tied with German so far, and also that Peruvian/Spanish food is so far below Mexican.
Most votes in the "Other" category people probably voted for Ethiopian, Tibetan/Nepalese, and Malaysian. It seems possible that there could have been more votes in the Other category, and for that to be 6th-8th place in the ranks.
Mexican shouldn't be a surprise since it's a cuisine that a lot of the people on this board (mostly Americans) are familiar with. What's more is that a lot of people haven't been introduced to the full extent of what Mexican cuisine has to offer since it's such an amazing fusion of various cuisines and climates where ingredients and techniques vary by a huge amount from region to region. Mexican cuisine is probably the most intense fusion of various indigenous New World and European continental cuisines in the world and it shows.
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I am not surprised Italian, Thai, Indian, and Chinese are in the top 5 most voted so far.
However, I am surprised that Mexican is in the top 5 and in second place.
It seems interesting that Indonesian is tied with German so far, and also that Peruvian/Spanish food is so far below Mexican.
Most votes in the "Other" category people probably voted for Ethiopian, Tibetan/Nepalese, and Malaysian. It seems possible that there could have been more votes in the Other category, and for that to be 6th-8th place in the ranks.
Honestly, I don't think most Americans are that qualified to judge real Indonesia food, let alone Malaysian. The immigrant communities from those countries are tiny compared to other Asian countries. I don't recall seeing one Indonesian restaurant in the US, not even in NYC. Indonesia is on our doorstep (our Mexico basically) and we're familiar with the culture and cuisine of that country. Aussies go there all the time and we have many immigrants from those nations. For me Indonesian and Malaysian food might be the best in Asia.
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