For me it’s Indian food, but then… what else? Ugh… what a question.
Bah. My mind is a whirling blank right here. I mean, freshly-prepared tiradito right off the boat is like… ffff, like tasting heaven.
I mean, I’ve never had *truly* fresh, truly authentic sushi, but I imagine it would be like tiradito? (note: it’s a form of ceviche, i.e. latino lime-cooked fish slices)
Mediterranean and Thai.
If Indian qualifies as one single cuisine - then Indian. I’ll have enough dishes to try out in my lifetime and that’s after considering I am vegetarian.
If Indian qualifies as one single cuisine
I guess you’re probably right. India is a large country, with roots, cultures and traditions like an ancient sequoia tree’s vast, extensive roots in the ground.
So just out of curiosity (especially as an ignorant Westerner), just how many distinct cuisines would you say there might be across India and the India-adjacent regions?
Note: let’s try to avoid going ‘regional’ if possible, because any nation can be broken down in to heaps of regional variations, yeah?
Indian and italian
Italian and Japanese
Eastern, western
Northern and southern
In this house, we serve both kinds of cuisine: macaroni and cheese!
Now if that’s a BLUES BROTHERS reference, I love it!!
Italian and Mexican. That covers about 50% of my diet already.
Take the meat parts out and I’ll eat almost anything.
Like my in-laws… Hmmm here’s a great new hummus and salad! Yeah we sprinkled chicken, pork, beef, and shrimp powder and other meat products. It doesn’t change the flavor, we just like gout so much.
Perfectly good meal + smear some dead animal on it.
I’m with you folks, on the whole. A well-prepared, complete-protein vegetarian meal rocks, especially with lots of complimentary seasoning.
Does gout come from consuming animal products? Hmm, I hadn’t heard that, before.
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Take the meat parts out and I’ll eat almost anything.
Stuff like cabbage (and Brassica sp.) are best cooked, because otherwise they can be goitrogenic, interfering with the thyroid gland’s function over time. There’s also the (admittedly slim) chance that some animal has passingly added something undesirable to a veggie, be it parasite or disease-causing.
Which is why it’s important to do either a mild chlorine wash of any veggies you eat, or at least blanch them. (not trying to lecture anyone here; all that’s just my personal understanding)
Does gout come from consuming animal products? Hmm, I hadn’t heard that, before.
Opposite actually - fructose intake, alcohol intake (same pathway as fructose in liver), advanced glycation end products (glucose intake) are the major drivers of gout.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821617-0.00004-8 Section 7.3 if you would like to know more (overwhelmingly so) - it’s available on the normal 🦜 sites.
Basically the old connection that meat can drive uric acid a bit and uric acid is a component of gout isn’t actually helpful, during a active flare up avoiding meat can help reduce uric acid levels a tiny bit but it does nothing to address the systemic cause of the gout in the first place. i.e. Watermelons have a high water content but are not causal in drownings, but avoid eating watermelons while actively drowning… same thing
Appreciate your opinions (which I’ll need to research), and especially enjoyed the following:
Watermelons have a high water content but are not causal in drownings, but avoid eating watermelons while actively drowning… same thing
😂
(oh my, that’s a good one)
From personal experience getting stranded in s foreign country as a kid with my dad unable to walk or move due to uric acid and gout, your worst offenders are red meat, pork and shrimp. Shrimp surprisingly being the worse one. But carry a long needle syringe to get your knees back on the road sooner! LOL.
My opinion is that a little meat is OK. I don’t eat meat but I can see where others need it like a drug.
others need it like a drug
Wow, actually… yeah?
Thai and Iranian. That’d cover a large spectrum of what I like.
What an incredibly difficult question to answer. Mexican and Chinese probably. Hokkien noodles are so fucking good
Japanese & Mediterranean.
Burger
- Mexican, what is life without salsa?
- French, can’t miss with those standards
Hmm, I was going to go with Mexican and Chinese but French has now thrown me!
It’s strange that French food has high standards when they’re French.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys?
Fake language speaking long cigarette smoking crappy movie making frogs.
Probably Thai and Indian, since they both have a strong vegetarian side.
Just pick Burmese, covers both. I’d probably choose that and Japanese.
Mexican and Italian. Both have very rich regional traditions with a ton of variety. Of course, Mexican food is a blend of Native American and European traditions, and Italian food (often) depends heavily on New World crops like tomatoes and corn, so these strict delineations are not real
Italian food (often) depends heavily on New World crops like tomatoes and corn
It’s so curious-- so what was late-stage Western Roman food like, anyway?
Max Miller is a dang-ol’ genius at this stuff, but he always has to make a huge production about it, y’know…?
I can only assume they just drank gallons of garam!
In all seriousness though, we have a very dedicated restaurant near us run by a couple from the Verona area in far-northern Italy, and they use no tomatoes or corn. Pretty much every dish they make would’ve been possible pre-Columbus. This includes many styles of pasta, sauces based in olive oil or butter, and other things like beef, shrimp, mushrooms, pistachios, peas, and a variety of cheeses.
Wow, that’s… yeah!
So, hehe, I’ve been to Italia a grand total of <once>, when we visited my aunt in Firenza, many years ago. (One of the things I really loved about Italia is how it busted our mindset about ‘American expectations’)
Eh, but they use no tomatoes or corn.
Fair! But we also came up with potatoes, chiles, and quite a number of spicy meatballs, not just of the polpette piccanti variety, eh?
It seems to be a belief many Americans have, but usually they are mainly familiar with American Italian cuisine, which is quite different from mist actual Italian cuisine.
is quite different from mist actual Italian cuisine.
That was my sense as well from my one visit to Italy. As is completely common, an ethnic / cultural food almost always get adapted towards the tastes of other regions / nations.
