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Cuisines from around the World
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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Modern Irish restaurant cuisine only scarcely resembles the rustic peasant foods of medieval days. Young chefs have traveled away from and back to their native island, training in between at Michelin starred restaurants and trendy American cooking schools. As a result, you can find indigenous ingredients prepared with French or Asian techniques and a decidedly lighter touch. In the kitchens of the
Read MoreItalian: 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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