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Which country is the undisputed culinary power house?

>> No.6811371

>>6811368
The United States of America

>> No.6811372

France, Italy, China, Japan

>> No.6811375

>>6811368
England

>> No.6811377

India

>> No.6811379

PERU
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>> No.6811413

>>6811368
6 posts and 8 countries so far.
>undisputed

>> No.6811433

France. Beer and wine, olive oil and butter. The best of the north and the south.

>>6811375
Maybe for desserts. Otherwise, they seem mortally afraid of strong flavours.

>> No.6811435

Gotta be France.

>> No.6811439

>>6811433
>>6811435
France's main contribution to the culinary world is technique. As far flavors and actual dishes/recipes go, there's a lot of countries ahead of France imo.

>> No.6811443

Germany for some nice meaty dishes.

>> No.6811444

>>6811368
Germany or The United States.
>yfw I'm from France

>> No.6811453

>>6811444
Trips is truth

>> No.6811457

>>6811439
Have to agree with this.

>> No.6811462

I'm voting for China

>> No.6811471

>>6811368
I'd have to go with China or USA

>> No.6811505

>>6811439
could you name some?

i had some indonesian rendang and i'm still craving it. if it hadn't been so upsetting on my stomach i'd have eaten more

>> No.6811512

>>6811505
Honestly I prefer most international dishes from any country. There's very few traditional French dishes I actually like. But sure I can name some. Italian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Mexican.

>> No.6811555

>>6811371
>>6811444
>>6811471
Kind of surprised that no one's made fun of the US as an answer, although that's what I'd go with. While it's hard to pin-point any specific food that's uniquely American, the food scene here is amazing in that you can find literally any type of cuisine and people are constantly experimenting and trying to expand on each other's ideas.

I guess you can say the same about any Western country with a large immigrant population, but the sheer size of the US makes our food scene almost ridiculous.

>> No.6811564

>>6811555
Honestly for the size of the US there's not a lot of cultural differences within the country compared to the rest of the world. Not very long history

>> No.6811615

>>6811564
I think there are some pretty strong cultural differences between US citizens, but I'm not sure about other countries. Do you have any examples of extreme cultural differences within the same country?

>> No.6811647

>>6811368
None... everybody's got something to offer, and you can go high class or uberpeasant on just about any nation.

>> No.6811706

>>6811647
>being a faggot

opinion discarded

>> No.6811758

>>6811372
>>6811444
>>6811471
>undisputed champion
>names multiple countries
Have to go with the USA for variety, advancements, and high quality possibilities.

>> No.6811766

>>6811758

yeah

nah

>> No.6811767

>>6811766
>Two opposing answers.

Make a decision for once

>> No.6811774

>>6811615
The U.S. has monopolized that. Compare Elk and Bison from Wyoming to New England lobster and Louisiana Creole Étouffée - just as a small sample.

>> No.6811783

>>6811413
kek

>> No.6811786

This is not a question

France.

Anything else is a pleb answer.

>> No.6811791

>>6811786
And France is the woefully uneducated "I think I heard this on the Travel Channel" answer.

>> No.6811794

You guys are all amatuer fags. The correct answer is objectively Switzerland.
Do you even cook bro?

>> No.6811821

From my limited traveling experience I would say Germany. The krauts know how to take a standard piece of meat and make it absurdly delicious.

>> No.6811826

>>6811786
France does staples well. Bread, cheese, veg. Not at all really innovative or able to combine and make great things

>> No.6811846

>>6811368
india probably

>> No.6811858

>>6811368
Mexico, who has several regions selected by UN as a world culinary treasure. It is the almagam of East meets West hence the prevalance of Asian ingredients like cilantro, tamarind, etc.

France on the other hand, had to beg and lobby (pay) for the UN to finally consider their cuisine.

Asia, particularly South-East is second followed by Mediterranean.

>> No.6811861

>>6811846
Indian food is African tier. Literally the majority of East African food (Somali, Ethiopian etc) is derived from Indian food.

>> No.6811862

>>6811564

You're obviously not from the US. Culturally, the East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and South are all very different. You can further break these regions down into New England, Pacific Northwest, etc. Then you have Hawaii, Alaska, and the territories. Crazy states like Florida and Texas have their own kind of culture as well. Just because we speak a common language doesn't mean that everything else is the same.

>> No.6811895

Canada

the donut

>> No.6811914

>>6811862
this. We call Florida's contribution to the culinary world a cuban sandwich. It's two kinds of pork and a pickle sliced thin long ways and mustard on pressed cuban bread. It sounds weird but it's an incredible sandwich if you go to the right place (Ybor city, Miami, selected places in Orlando)

>> No.6812020

>>6811371
This. And I'm not even American. But i did live there for work for a couple of years, (contract legal work), and that place really is a melting pot of foodand every kind of cuisine you can think of, all wrapped in an instant access situation. There's better cities for food around the world, but not a better country as a whole.

>> No.6812024

>>6812020
Yeah basically. I live in Los angeles, and there are a whole host of wonderful restaurants from many different cultures to choose from. But "Traditional Los Angeles food" doesn't exist.

>> No.6812038

>>6811758
>Have to go with the USA for variety, advancements, and high quality possibilities.
True, but the shit quality of standard ingredients in the US is a strike against it.

>> No.6812654

The only gripe people have the USA not being the obvious choice is the freshness of ingredients.
Like no shit Applebees or Steak and shakenor whatever chain restaurant is going to be fucking terible.

>> No.6812908

>>6811444
You just have berlin syndrome

>> No.6812922

>>6811433

>france
>beer

>> No.6812927

>>6811786

If all you eat is bread, cheese, and wine, you're probably right. Aside from that you have nothing to go on.

>lived in dijon for a year
>over half of the mustard is imported from canada

>> No.6812953

Best techniques is France without a doubt, with Japan coming in second.

Best creativity and flavour is China. I personally like Italian best when it comes to flavour but I can't deny that Chinese cuisine has a HUUUGE range. Schezuan is my fave.

Best fusion I've had is in multicultural countries like USA and Australia and oddly, South Korea. That really is odd because Korean food is generally shit tier, but Korean-style American food is the best I've ever had in my life.


Overall, I would place China as the top just for the sheer range of techniques, flavours and incredible creativity, even if imo the presentation of dishes falls a bit flat compared to haute cuisine.

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6812967

>>6812953
You are incompetent and have shit tastes. Don't even share your opinions again, its hard for us to not think of you as some sort of lost idiot child.

>france
>just bury it in butter and cream and call it cooking

>japan
>just smother everything with MSG and pretend we can cook
>also its iconic foods originated elsewhere

>likes italian food
>not even gonna comment you might as well tell me you love belgian ales fuckin pussy

>Korean food
>I agree with you on korean fusion, but I also like authentic korean food, or at least what I have been served by koreans.

>china wins
>i actually cant disagree with this

youre still a big dummy dumb head retard baby with butt stinks. So there.

>> No.6812968

>>6812927
ah go fuck yourself pleb
> god-tier seasonal vegetables
> seafood
> mushrooms (fucking truffles mang)
> escargot
> all of the charcuterie

>> No.6812983

>>6812968

>small variety of fresh vegetables
>decent seafood, if you live near the coast or can afford it
>most truffles are exported, and aren't really cheaper in france
>escargot...
>thinking france is the only place doing really good charcuterie

>> No.6812989

>>6812038
this

>> No.6813001

>>6811368
I think it depends on the person, and thus you wouldn't be able to derive an answer of a true "power house."

America has awesome diversity in their food, Germany have so much in the way of robust flavors, France do the staples well (bread, cheese, wine and beer) India for their use in 'erbs and the such, mekong delta for their use of literally every animal and its parts and so on and so forth.

So it depends on the person. Like the basics? go France. Like flavor explosions? Germany. Have no idea what to eat but you want it to be tasty? America. Like eating strange and unknown flavors of the world/local alleyway? Asia.

Just my opinion though.

And i like my basics. So i think France would be a good option for me.

>> No.6813003

>>6812038
>shit quality of standard ingredients
Just because the cheaper stuff is more popular doesn't mean that's all we produce as standard. That's the difference. Our standard is not so much standard as simply what is more popular. We let the markets define how much of what gets produced and try to keep the pricing and labeling as honest as we can from there. The result is some of the best cheap stuff you can get and plenty of the better stuff for when you want it, making your point simply wrong.

>> No.6813036

>>6812983
it's not the only, but I like their stuff better than the Germans'

>> No.6813039

>>6813003
TL;DR: we have mostly shit with some overpriced decent stuff mixed in

>> No.6813070

>>6811368
United States tbh

>> No.6813117

>>6813039
>hi, I'm a jealous yuropoor

>> No.6813138

>>6813117
>hi, i am shit because of freedom, so my shit doesn't really stink after all!

>> No.6813141

>>6813138
>!

>>>/reddit/

Inb4 nerd rage

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6813151

>>6811368
>Cantonese > Italian > French > Indonesian American > Dutch > Russian > Mexican > Thai > Greek.
Anything else is a meme answer.
Debate me faggots.

>> No.6813203

>>6813039
Almost. It's actually more like
>We let the markets define how much of what gets produced and try to keep the pricing and labeling as honest as we can from there. The result is some of the best cheap stuff you can get and plenty of the better stuff for when you want it
There's a subtle difference there.

>> No.6813204

>>6813151
I like this one, it might not be perfect but its pretty good

>> No.6813210

>>6812967
It's like bait that morphs into facetiousness that can't keep a straight face

>> No.6813221

>>6813151
>Anything else is a meme answer
Don't do that

Also no Japanese at all? And I have very little experience with it, but my understanding was that Russian food is comically terrible.

>> No.6813274

Not France

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6813276

>>6811368
canada is the undisputed master of all things culinary.

>pic related

>> No.6813323

>>6811368
China, end of story.

>> No.6813326

China

>> No.6813605

>>6811372
I agree. In that order. However the true king is France.

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6813611

>>6811368
Make way motherfuckers.

>> No.6813614

Jamaica

/thread

>> No.6813619

>>6813611
this

literally everybody likes mexican food. If you're on a date and you don't know what the fuck he/she likes, go to a mexican restaurant