One food style for life

[Beirut]

Which of all the regional cuisines would you chose if you had to eat from that menu for the rest of your face stuffing existence?

For me, Indian food. Fiery curries, lots of rice, beans, nan bread, washed down with pint after pint of Guinness.

Next would be either Middle East or Thai.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I think Indian food wins out for me in the end, with Chinese coming an extremely close second.

[JAG]

Chinese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sjakihata]

hmm, this is tough, either I will go with an asian cuisine (probably chinese or indian) or something like italian.


pizza is hard to miss, so is rice ... :/

[Somebody Else]

I'd go for either Chinese or Italian - there's a lot of variety in Chinese cuisine, likewise in Italian; and it's all very good. If drink is included, I'd go for Italian - China only has tea going for it - healthy etc. but no "kick" to it, anything that is alcoholic in China tastes like lighter fluid.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

American.

[discovery1]

Seeing as how American would likely include food from a lot of other places, I would agree with the above.

[Somebody Else]

Seeing as how American would likely include food from a lot of other places, I would agree with the above.

But following that argument, that would mean that all countries have food from other places - it's not as if the only place people immigrate to is the US.

[discovery1]

True, but I think(would like to believe) that we are far better at intigrating immegrants than elsewhere.

[solypsist]

american food is fast food, so enjoy!

i'll go with japanese

[Tachikaze]

For health, I would choose Japanese, but I like Mexican best.

[Hetman_Koronny]

The Mediterranean cuisine for me.

French cheese and dry wines. Italian pastas, tomatos, olives and semi-dry wines. Greek gyros, tsaziki (sp?), and Metaxa. I'd also add great Spanish wines and Turkish, viagra-like sweets.

I would have no problem to live my days on such menu.

I would recommend Polish cuisine to all Org members interested in trying something new. It is extremely tasty although not that healthy due to fat abuse when preparing meals. And yes, the vodka, lots of it. I don't really believe that Polish cuisine should be applied for life but could be a pleasant though sinful springboard for anything else.

[LittleGrizzly]

Indian wins this for me with chinese then turkish trailing closely behind, i love my curry!

[derF]

MEDITERRANEAN.

Oh my days! The seafood is excuisite. Breads, vegetables and MEATS!

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[English assassin]

English.

But seeing as no one is going to take that seriously, I'd say French. But with English puddings. Mmm, fruit sponge, rhubarb crumble, custard....

[King Edward]

English!

Roast Beef, Yorkshire puddings and roast tatties covered in gallons of thick gravy, hummm gravey!! Add to that Bangers and mash, Steak and kdney pies, beef wellington, pork chops with apple sauce, spotted dick covered in custard hummm. Nice warm beer and a packet of pork scratchings. Now thats good eating!

Closeley followed by Indian and Chinese Food.

[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

[Hosakawa Tito]

Tough choice but make mine Italian.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Italian. In fact, one word: "cannoli."

[Leet Eriksson]

Indian beats the rest, although spicy its great (they also have some sort of cake thats piping hot ) but i have colon problems so eating too much and i'm in deep mud best indian dish is Biryani most definatly.

I also like Chinese, Japanese, Lebanese, and Greek.

[Ser Clegane]

Italian would be my choice (pasta, meat, seafood, lots of antipasti etc.)

Just for the food as such Chinese and Indian would be tough contenders for the top spot but I like to have a bottle of wine with my diner, and while there might be some exceptions, spicy Asian cuisine and proper wine are IMO not really a divine combination...

@ Beirut's last post: Stop this at once - otherwise I demand getting all these dishes ... like right now!

@ Louis: The same goes for you (I think I have to visit France again soon - and not just Paris where eating out makes my wallet cry out in pain. And then I call probably call myself "Ser Clegane the Fat" )