Origins of Different World Cuisines
- Read the next texts about the history of 4 famous world cuisines.
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Washoku, Japan
| Globally, people refer to Japanese food as Washoku. Washoku is based on the respect for nature, using natural, and local ingredients such as rice, fish,vegetables and edible wild plants. Traditional Washoku includes four elements: Cooked rice, soups, side dishes that give flavour to the rice, and tsukemono (Japanese pickles). |
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Traditional Mexican Cuisine
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National cuisine in Mexico is a result of the interaction between Spanish conquistadors and Aztec culture. Most of the Mexican food we eat today is a delicious combination of ancient traditions, Aztec, Mayan and Spanish. The French also played their part in the story of Mexican cuisine.
Some popular Mexican dishes are enchiladas, tacos, quesadillas and tapas. The use of avocado, tomato, lime and garlic with beans and chocolates and chilies in some preparations is rich with antioxidants becoming nutritional superfoods.
adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/world-best-food-cultures/index.html
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Uruguayan Cuisine
| Uruguayan cuisine is a mixture of culinary traditions from different European countries, especially from Mediterranean foods from Spain, Italy, Portugal and France. It is also influenced by immigrants' traditions coming from countries such as Germany and Scotland. |
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English Cuisine
| "English cuisine is the foundation of western diets all over the world. (...) It has also become a renowned epicentre for international food from India, China, Africa, and the Americas. This is largely because of British Imperialism during the 19th and 20th centuries when new foods were brought back from other countries, and then again by a wave of post-world War II immigration to England." |
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