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Cuisines from around the World
Creole: Traditional
The term, Creole, means simply a person with European blood who has been born in the New World. Over time, it also came to apply to those with mixed French or Spanish and African or Caribbean blood. In the world of cooking, it names the French-inspired haute cuisine of New Orleans. Here, tried-and-true French methods met American ingredients head-on. The results were tantalizing: Creole bouillabai
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Mongolian
Meat is the basis of the diet, primarily beef and mutton. The local cooking is quite distinctive. One local specialty is Boodog. This is the whole carcass of a goat roasted from the inside - the entrails and bones are taken out through the throat, the carcass is filled with burning hot stones and the neck tied tightly, and thus the goat is cooked from the inside to the outside. Fish is also beginn
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Iranian
Rice is the staple food and the Iranians cook it superbly. Dishes include chelo khoresh (rice topped with vegetables and meat in a nut sauce), polo chele (pilau rice), polo sabzi (pilau rice cooked with fresh herbs), polo chirin (sweet-sour saffron-colored rice with raisins, almonds and orange), adas polo (rice, lentils and meat), morgh polo (chicken and pilau rice), chelo kababs (rice with skewer
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