Nepalese

The Nepali cuisine, also known as cuisine of the Himalayas, bears uniqueness in that it merges two great culinary traditions of the region, namely Indian and Tibetan, into a mainstream culinary culture of its own, reflecting the geographic as well as demographic diversity that exists in the Himalayas. Nepal, a tiny country by any geometric measurements, stretches from the lowlands of the sub-tropi

Indonesian

Indonesia's indigenous techniques and ingredients merge with influences from India, the Middle East, China and Europe. And then there are the New World products brought by Spanish and Portuguese traders long before the Dutch colonized the islands.

Aficionados can only skim the surface unless we travel Indonesia itself. Most restaurants abroad and English-language cookbooks focus on the foods

Lebanese

The cuisine of Lebanon is the epitome of the Mediterranean diet. It includes an abundance of starches, fruits, vegetables, fresh fish and seafood; animal fats are consumed sparingly. Poultry is eaten more often than red meat, and when red meat is eaten it is usually lamb. It also includes copious amounts of garlic and olive oil-nary a meal goes by in Lebanon that does not include these two ingredi