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Cuisines from around the World

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Polish

Polish food is hearty food made up of meat, vegetables, and grains. It is a cuisine you can feel at home with. Pork is the main meat in the cuisine of Poland. Bread is a traditional Polish food. After summer harvest in villages all over the country farmers have a special celebration day called Dozynki, day of the end of harvest. That day, people gather together to sing, dance, thank God and taste

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Sandwiches

1st Century B.C. -- First recorded sandwich made by rabbi Hillel; he pressed chopped nuts, apples, spices and other ingredients between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs during Passover.

1762 -- Modern sandwich invented in London by John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, when he asks for bread, cheese and meat to be brought so he can continue gambling. He holds the food -- bread outside a

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Soul

Soul food describes food traditionally eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States, and includes chitterlings, ham hocks, and collard greens.

Soul food restaurants are mostly located in the South, but can also be found in major northern cities such as Chicago. With the exception of chitterlings, which are characteristic of African American cookery, soul food could apply to white

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