One food style for life

[DemonArchangel]

Chinese, without a doubt.
Chinese=awesome
Other foods=Suck

[Ronin]

italian

[Beirut]

Chinese, without a doubt.
Chinese=awesome
Other foods=Suck

Ack! A food xenophobe!

Free your mind man. Food is like women - you should love them all.

Granted a dish of Shezuan noodles spicy enough to kill is a gift of nature, but would you deny yourself a 1 1/2 inch thick juicy Rib Eye off the BBQ?

Would you say no to a garlic drenched pizza smothered in smotherings fresh from the oven?

Would you pass on a Tourtiere Lac St-Jean with seven layers of wild game, beef and chicken pipping hot under a golden crust?

Would you walk away from fresh bread, good cheese and a bottle of fine red wine?

Would you scoff at a Gratin Dauphinoise, with potatos and onions slow cooked in rich cream, renedered golden brown under the broiler with a unctuous topping of the finest French cheeses?

Would you cast away your taste buds from the delights of fresh bagels and lox, chopped lived and hot latkes?

Damnit man, free yourself! Let thine colon live!

[LittleGrizzly]

damn you Beirut, got me dribbling now...

[Kommodus]

Gotta go with Italian. I love all of the variations on the Mediterranean theme.

By the way, American food is not fast food. It's true that America basically just imports various cuisines from all over the world, but if any cuisine could be called American, I would say it is basically just good old-fashioned home cooking; that is, things like roast beef, potatoes, fresh vegetables, steak, chicken, fish, pork chops, wheat bread, fruit pies, etc. It's characterized by simple preparation; whereas in many cultures, a dish is composed of a large number of ingredients combined in a specific way, American cuisine tends to involve each ingredient standing mostly on its own (like a thick juicy steak or a big baked potato, although the steak will probably be spiced and the potato topped with various condiments). I suppose in this way American cuisine and English cuisine share a little in common.

And I do confess, I love it. I'm a meat & potatoes kind of guy.

So I suppose it's close, but all that pasta, sauce, and cheese excites my palette a little more in the end. Good lasagna is pretty difficult to beat. The spiced meats and fresh vegetables seal the deal for the Italians.

[sharrukin]

Mediterranean and Greek in particular, though Turkish meat dishes are awesome! Hate seafood though and the Greeks eat a lot of that.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Tough, real though. Not the country, that's a no-brainer, but the region.

Look, I don't want to be a chauvinist and all, and I've heard rumours about some foreign food being quite okay actually, but really...
The British have their humor, the Germans excel in making cars, and we're unsurpassed when it comes to all things culinary. It's the natural order of things, France's culinary supremacy is part of God's plan with this world...

Now, for my choice I'd have to go for Burgundian.

Burgundy boasts some of the best produce and meats. It's cuisine is delicate without being overly 'fussy'. Lots of pork, beef and chicken, onions, mushrooms, garlic, snails and cream (used sparingly).

Many dishes are well known, such as coq au vin (chicken in a red wine, mushroom and onion sauce) and bœuf à la bourguignonne (beef stewed in red wine with mushrooms and onions).

Particular favourites are marcassin farci au saucisson (young wild boar with a sausage stuffing), escargots à la bourguignonne (snails served with parsley and garlic butter) and meat or fish dishes en meurette (in a red wine sauce).

Let's not forget about Burgundian wines:
One sip and you know that there must be a benevolent God.

Côte de Nuits, the ultimate in firm red wine. Marsannay is the best rosé. Chablis, dry white wine, perfect with fish.


For those into Mediterranean food I'd recommend you try the cuisine from the Provençe, my second choice:

Dishes prepared à la provençale are made with tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, onions, herbs and sometimes aubergine, artichokes, olives and sweet and hot peppers. Vegetables are baked in oil for dishes such as ratatouille, or used in salads.

And it's famous for it's seafood, with raïto (red wine, tomato, garlic and ground walnut sauce). Try bouillabaisse (stew-like soup with conger eel, scorpion fish, gurnet and other fish, saffron, fennel, garlic and bitter orange peel, served with garlic mayonnaise).

On the Côte d'Azur, the food is close to Italian, with a lot of pasta, especially ravioli and cannelloni, gnocchi, and pistou (=close to pesto).

Wines: Côtes du Rhône are delicious. If I'm ever going to commit suicide, I want to do so drowning in a barrel of it.

[YAKOBU]

Although born in Bradford (nicknamed Curry City) I do not have the palate required for spicy food. I do like Oriental and Italian though and Oriental would be my slight favourite.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Sicilian/Calabrian/Apulian.

[ah_dut]

Chinese...I actually live off it 2 meals a day. The other meal being school dinners on weekdays