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Cuisines from around the World

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Scottish

The Scottish have their own national dishes, based upon wild products and food, locally produced in this northern region. They include oats, barley, fowl, game, mutton, salmon, herring, and haddock. Oat cakes, shortbread, black buns, bannocks, finnan haddies and haggis are specialties.

Source: by Lou Seibert Pappas

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Southern

The southern United States has a distinct cuisine that draws heavily on African American influences. Soul food and Cajun are types of southern cuisine.

Some foods that are common in the U.S. South are sweet tea and grits. Other distinctive or typical dishes include: fried chicken, biscuits, okra (fried, boiled, pickled, or in gumbo), a variety of other pickles including peaches, green tomatoe

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Korean

Korea has its own cuisine, quite different from Chinese or Japanese. Rice is the staple food and a typical Korean meal consists of rice, soup, rice water and 8-20 side dishes of vegetables, fish, poultry, eggs, bean curd and sea plants. Most Korean soups and side dishes are heavily laced with red pepper. Dishes include kimchi (Korean national dish, highly spiced pickle of Chinese cabbage or white

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