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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That's the best cuisine on earth.
There’s a big difference between Chinese food in the U.S., and Chinese food in China.
While there is some really great food in China, much of it is just meh.
One major difference between China and Japan is that I’ve never had any issues eating anywhere in Japan. Heck, even 7-Eleven in Japan has some pretty good food. I’ve eaten at numerous roadside and streetside food vendors in Japan, where there just seems to be a higher level of pride associated with whatever they are serving. Perhaps the term, ‘ikigai’ would be somewhat appropriate.
I love sushi. But hard to find reliably good stuff in our inland city. Until recently, there was an excellent place in Sandpoint Idaho, great food, beautiful place right on the river, but they didn’t make it through the lockdown.
I tend to like quite a variety of cuisines.
I find that Southeast Asian recipes are often not compatible with my food ingredients of choice, Indian food is too complex to judge the recipes by and Japanese food is too unusual to try to cook.
the pictures look interesting:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/698/world-cuisine/asian/indonesian/
I knew a wonderful family from Lebanon. The matriarch taught me how to make Lebanese food and fortunately, there was a little deli nearby with ingredients for her recipes. I’m a horrible cook, but the food I made was delish.
I don’t eat pork. Jews don’t either, but I’m not Jewish.
I read a book that said that pigs are smarter than dogs and I’m definitely not eating your poodle.
We rarely eat out because there is nothing as good as a meal made with food we have grown ourselves (or bought from local farmers), but the best restaurant that my husband and I go to when we eat out is an Italian one set on a farm which provides the restaurant with fresh veggies and meat. All the pasta is hand made. To die for!
I spent a week in Mexico with a wealthy business family. We ate at dozens of the best restaurants in Leon, Guanajuato, and other Bahia cities. The meal we had at the family home was great but food out was plagued by poor prep, poor service and improper presentation.
That’s why said ‘for the most part’. I lived an hour from Mexico in Texas and the TexMex was fantastic, had to go over the border for Mexican tho.
Religious Jews who Keep Kosher don’t eat pork.
Which is to say, a huge portion of American Jews do eat pork.
I kept Kosher for 25+ years, and even in several synagogues I attended, we were wierd.
Having eaten in many countries around the world.. I’ll stick with American any day of the week. I can eat food by the top 10 listed in the article right here and I’ll take my own self made Italian meals any day.
Mexican?? beans, rice, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and some type of meat you have a taco, beans, rice, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and some type of meat and you have a burrito, beans, rice, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and some type of meat Chimichangas.. it’s all the same shxt just depends how you wrap it. I’ll give the beaner’s credit though, it’s the only place where you eat the plate.
Going out for sushi tomorrow evening . Don’t know what other Japanese food you have eaten , but there is so much more than sushi and sukiyaki hehe . Some have said Chinese is better than Japanese - it’s like comparing oranges and apples . Dig both .
God for you. I do not either.
I have a book called “GOOD FOOD FROM MEXICO” that has very high-end recipes.
“Washington DC has a huge selection of restaurants due to all the embassies there.”
The variety is due to the large number of immigrant groups: Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Asian Indian, Persian, Ethiopian, Peruvian, etc.
They mainly live in the suburbs. DC itself was about 60% black, 30% white and about 10% Hispanic and other when I lived in the area.
The quality was good when I lived in the area.
Israel is said to have quite a variety of cuisines.
I’m quite happy with a hamburger, fries and rings. Occasional steak, chicken and pizza work too. Other than that, you all can have your fancy cuisine.
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