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Cuisine
Cuisine (from French language|French ''cuisine'', "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin ''coquere'', "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. For example, the American-Chinese dish chop suey clearly reflected the adaptation of Chinese cuisine to the ingredients available in North America. Religion|Religious food laws can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine. For example, Indian cuisine is characterized by its wide varieties of vegetarian dishes because Hinduism discourages consumption of meat.
Traditional cuisine
A traditional cuisine is a coherent tradition of food preparation that rises from the daily lives and kitchens of a people over an extended period of time in a specific region of a country and which has notable distinctions from the cuisine of the country as a whole. Some examples of great regional variance can be seen in the cuisines of Cuisine of France|France, Cuisine of Italy|Italy, Cuisine of Indonesia|Indonesia, Cuisine of Mexico|Mexico, Cuisine of India|India and Cuisine of China|China among others.
See also
- Cooking
- Culinary arts
- Gourmet Library and museum
- List of basic cooking topics
- List of cuisines
- Restaurant
External links
- NEAC - Network of European Alimentary Culture
- CuisineXtreme - Culinary Social Networking Community
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