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Cuisines from around the World
Swiss
Swiss cuisine is varied. The great specialty is fondue, the delicious concoction of Gruyère and Vacherin cheese, melted and mixed with white wine, flour, Kirsch and a little garlic. Other cheese specialties are Emmental and Tête de Moine. Regional specialties include viande sechée (dried beef or pork) from Valais and the Grisons where it is called Bündnerfleisch. The meat is cut wafer thin, wi
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Szechwan
The most well-known characteristic of Szechwan cuisine is that the most unusual dishes can be made out of the most common materials. The taste is exclusive, numb and hot and good to promote appetite.
Szechwan cuisine is the spicy bombshell of China as chili is the main ingredient in all the dishes. The high chili quotient can be compared to Thai, Indian and Malay cuisine. I can vouch for this
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Italian: Tuscany
Tuscany: Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Livorno, Arezzo, Fiesole
Just as Dante executed a kind of coup...claiming de facto by his masterpiece the Commedia, that the local Florentine dialect was henceforth to be known as THE Italian vernacular...so Florentine cooking, especially that of the early Renaissance, has become the resonant voice of Italian food in European history. Great Florentine
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