Posted on 01/01/2025 3:34:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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However, travel guide TasteAtlas has taken a shot by analyzing ratings from users, who deemed Greek food the overall best of the top 100 cuisines on the globe.
The United States, meanwhile, placed outside the top ten in this culinary decathlon, but still fared better than our neighbors across the pond in the UK.
To determine who deserved a place on this Olympic podium of eats, TasteAtlas analyzed 477,287 ratings for 15,478 foods in their database. Listed underneath each entry were their highest rated foods. Perhaps it’s fitting that the country that invented democracy was picked via crowdsourcing on this highly-subjective countdown. That’s right, Greece stood atop this culinary Mount Olympus, boasting a score of 4.6 out of 5 five stars.
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2.Italian
3.Mexican
4.Spanish
5.Portuguese
6.Turkish
7.Indonesian
8.French
9.Japanese
10. Chinese
No Thai? No Indian?
Two major problems with food in the U.S.:
1. We allow ourselves to be give terrible quality ingredients. Maybe the worst in the world.
2. It's very hard to get spicy food.
The cuisines with the most recipes are Chinese and Arabic cuisine, and The Chinese are first only because they eat pork.
IMHO
Italian is better than Greek.
Chinese is better than Japanese.
Mexican in America is not high quality food.
I’m the cook in our house. Didn’t know I could be a decent cook until after I retired, but I had a French mother who could make even liver taste good and I remembered more than I thought. If you want good food, grow your own veggies, shop for local meats, and make our own food. Nothing like it. Makes me all warm and fuzzy when someone takes a bite of something I made and just close their eyes in pleasure and dig in. The Greeks have got nothing on me, and I don’t agree with this list at all. America is the only country where you can eat any kind of cuisine you want. Everything is available here.
Calling some of those “a cuisine” isn’t really accurate. They are a few or even several cuisines encompassed by a country.
TBH, IMO food is like movies.....what I like you may not.....what you like I may not.
And food critics are like political pollsters......wrong as much as right.
Portuguese? What.....seafood
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I look forward to testing that assertion. There are a number of cuisines I just haven’t sampled enough to form an opinion about. I have enjoyed the food court Korean food I have had, but haven’t begun to look at the bigger picture on that.
They are not the same.
Mexican in Mexico is not exactly high quality either.
What do Ethiopians and Yoko Ono have in common?
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They both live off dead Beatles.
I love good food and will try anything once!
Washington DC has a huge selection of restaurants due to all the embassies there. You can get anything in the US, but not everywhere.
Unless we understand all the criteria...hard to say. Greek & Italian are healthy, lots of olive oil, veggies...but when you’re there it’s hard to get away from.
We may not have as authentic food here but none of these countries have much diversity, nothing like what we have here. While some of our food isn’t as healthy, I think that is partly the choice of the consumer.
Because everyone has the same tastes and budget. We are all equally inferior and subservient to journalists and the intellectuals they serve.
... but it's exactly the same as the difference between umami and piquant
(just kidding)
For the most part, ‘Mexican’ food in the US is TexMex, not Mexican
Give me a hot dog with mustard, ketchup, and relish sold by an NYC guy or gal with a pushcart and I will be very happy!
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