The different cuisines of the world! what cuisine did you grow up with?
By pepai123456
@pepai123456 (879)
Philippines
January 9, 2012 6:58am CST
So starting tomorrow we will be discussing all about cuisines of the world for our international cuisine subject and kitchen laboratory session.
When we say cuisine it usually talks about the cooking of a certain place or culture what is the unique aspect of the culture and how it influenced their cuisine and the way they cook and eat.History,ingredient,religion, and geography plays major role in building this so called cuisine without its just a dish.The cuisines are usually divided to the country where it originated and.
As for me I grow up in a Filipino family so I'm basically Asian(some says Filipinos are not Asian but anyways) I grow up eating some of the traditional food that is served by my mother who is a very good cook.The cuisine of the Philippines is some what misunderstood and usually unappreciated because of the way it is serve the best example is the street food Balut, or the fact that mostly all of the Filipino dishes has Spanish,Chinese,American influences that it doesn't have a distinct Filipino vibe about it, like the Pancit gisado(stir fried noodles) its a Filipino dish but its clearly a Chinese dish or the Paella Valenciana a popular festive Filipino dish that reminds me of the Spanish Paella. Well almost all cuisines are influenced by other but they transformed it to there own but believe me our cuisine is very delicious.Some of the traditional Filipino dishes are Paksiw,pinakbet,adobo,sisig,sinigang,pancit,kare-kare just to name a few.
What cuisine did you grow up? what can you say about it? is it popular like the french cuisine or underrated?
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15 responses
@Bamboee (645)
• United Arab Emirates
9 Jan 12
Hello..
Very interesting topic, reminds me of my mom's cooking and I wish she could prepare for me those tasty amazing meals..
Well I do not know much about the history of the food but I do know that my mother is from Myanmar also known as Burma, so their cuisine is way different than what my dad is brought up with because he is from Pakistan. So it was quiet fun having food at home because mom use to prepare at times dishes from her country side and as she got married to my dad ofcourse she adopted his culture and traditions so she use to cook dishes that he had grown up with..
Burmese dishes are much on a lighter note, they are not heavy and mainly involve seafood and vegetables. Less of chicken and meat..
Where as Pakistani dishes are filled with spices, chillies specially the red ones. Pakistani food without spice is not considerate up to the mark. It consists more of chicken and meat dishes which are absolutely mouth watering..
Well on a international level I know that Pakistani dishes are loved all over, I am living in Arab country its very famous around here and so in Canada where my brother is living...
that's all I know!!!
And ya both of these cuisines are very traditional, they involve lots of dedication and love when prepared, they are not cooked within 5 minutes..
They take time, and energy and ofcourse the right quantity!
Cheers!
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
That is a very informative response there Bamboee thanks for clarifying the Burmese cuisine and Pakistani cuisine I think they both belong in middle eastern cuisine.
Your love for tradition and your moms cooking is so wondeful to hear. 
have a great day
have a great day 
@bhonti (1246)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
I also grew up eating Filipino cuisine because it is the most abundant in our place obviously. I also like Italian cuisine because here in our country, it's very easy to find Italian restaurants that serve pastas and pizzas. I like eating pastas and pizza.
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
Ohh hi there kababayan !
sadly the pasta and pizza we eat on the fast food chains are already Americanized so they aren't that authentic Italian dish anymore, how about trying to make your own pasta or pizza its just a suggestion but i try to do this if i wanna taste authentic Italian pizza and pasta ooh and don't forget the basil(yes they grow in the Philippines they like warm climate) and tomato
@marguicha (223097)
• Chile
9 Jan 12
We have many different cuisines in our country, as it is a long and thin country. In the north, our cuisine is very similar in some ways to peruvian cuisine of that zone. Where I live, there was a mixture of spanish cuisine with the bounty of our earth. In the south there are many dishes with sheep and potatoes. Many things have changed since I was a child and some fishes I ate then are now almost extint. Corn, beans and cazuelas were part of my youth. I still like them.
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
yes through the course of time some ingredients will be very hard to obtain due to the economy and the diversity of the ingredients in a certain location but you response really shows how abundant and unique the cuisine you have grown with.
have a great day marguicha!
@triplejazzm51 (1373)
• Philippines
11 Jan 12
Like you, i am also a Filipino and i grew up in a remote province where there is plenty of fish and vegetables. I am living now in the city but i still miss the food my mother prepared for us. I miss the ginataang gulay (vegetables cooked in coconut milk), like the jackfruit with "bago" leaves, the puso ng saging (banana bud or flower) and other ginataan dishes. Its so delicious especially if cooked in a clay pot. I also miss the stewed vegetables or mixed vegetable soup ( sinabawang gulay or laswa) We also have pinangat na tuna and grilled tuna (inihaw na tuna sa uling na bao). We have lots more native dishes, some of them, i cook also if i have time. These dishes are familiar among us, i just don't know if other people know about these recipes.
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
19 Jan 12
mmhhm... the authentic Filipino cuisine the laswa or lawoi (in other visayan dialect) ginataan/genat-an , sinugba/inihaw are really treasured by the old citizens of the bisaya region they would always make this when its raining or even in a hot day and pair it with fried fish or sinugbang isda (grilled fish) or sometimes sinugbang bulad (grilled dried fish). Some of the dishes you mentioned are not common for people that leave in metro manila because they are more influence by the Spanish, Chinese, western cuisine with a dash of Filipino innovation but the other neighboring cities in luzon has there own style of doing stuffs
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
11 Jan 12
Peruvian Baby!!! Well I eat Rabbits and Guinea Pigs, Its part of my culture for millions of years, i dont care if people think its "animal cruelty" the rabbits we eat have happier lives than the chickens they eat, I dont judge people on what they eat so they should not judge me to what I eat. I am not going to eat their beloved pets, the ones I eat are raised for consumption not raised to be pets,
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
19 Jan 12
wait but i thought you live in the Philippines?
anyway I have eaten rabbits once and only once but i have never eat a rabbit again...ever... i felt sad for the rabbit...I even hate killing live chicken .
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
31 Jan 12
If you are a farmer from the US or Europe, you wont feel sorry for them anymore. They were worst than rats when it comes to becoming pest cos they eat everything. Yes I live in the Phillipines but I have Inca blood. My dad belongs from an Incan tribe.
@geekygirl (27)
• United States
11 Jan 12
I grew up, and still live, in the southern portion of the United States. Southern food definitely has a distinction all its own. Foods such as soup beans (known as pinto beans to most other parts of the country) with cornbread, fried potatoes and mustard greens were frequently seen on our table. I still serve these foods to my own family as well.
Other popular dishes from my childhood include fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, southern fried steak and of course salmon patties. Southern food tends to rely heavily on butter and grease and sets heavy on the stomach as a result. I won't proclaim it to be among the healthiest of cuisines, but in my own opinion there is nothing that compares.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
9 Jan 12
Good old american meat and potatoes. I grew up on a farm where we grew most of our food. And since everyone worked so hard we usually had meat and potaotes and veggies too.....I didn't know anything much about other cuisines until I left home and moved to a bigger town.
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
19 Jan 12
I have always adored the american cuisine its simple homey style is sometimes overlooked but its taste is delish.The american cuisine also change the entire cuisines around the world with the introduction of potatoes,tomatoes,vanilla, and cocoa just to name a few.
@celticeagle (167015)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Jan 12
American cuisine is different. I grew up with Meat and potatoes, oh ya. But i like chinese and mexican also.
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
14 Jan 12
I am not quite sure what cuisine that I would have grown up with. I have a mix of nationalities. Irish, Scottish, Hungarian, Bohemian, German and English. So I would probably think that each nationality is in some of the many recipes that my grandmothers, my Mom and and aunts have made.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
11 Jan 12
I am also a Filipino like you.
I am also used to different kind of cuisines.
I was raised eating bread in the morning..
then, noodles or veggies Chinese styles...
The Italian pasta and most Spanish cuisines since my grandmother is from Leyte and people there loves Spanish menu....
So, i grew up with mixed cuisines- but I love pasta a lot.
@much2say (55655)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Jan 12
I grew up on Japanese food and "American" food. Breakfast was typically "American" because it's too much of a hassle making a Japanese breakfast. Lunch was a mix of foods. And dinner was usually rice, some meat/veggie dish, and a bunch of little dishes of Japanese pickles and extras. Sushi/sashimi was too expensive, and as I rarely had it, I did not acquire a taste for it (but by the time my sister was born, we did have it more often and she liked it - I still did not). Japanese cuisine, homestyle, can be rather simple . . . with the ingredients including soy sauce, a bit of sugar, and mirin in a lot of recipes (not all of course, but a lot). I grew up in Southern California (US), in an area where there is a mix of cultures - so I actually grew up on different foods on top of the typical "American" and Japanese foods at home.
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
19 Jan 12
ahhh the sophisticated Japanese cuisine I really wanna taste some authentic Japanese cuisine, what i like about the cuisine of japan is that it is simple what i mean is that they uses fresh produce and altered just a little to highlight the dish no overpowering spices and it base around the seasons.
@moneywinner (1864)
• Brazil
19 Jan 12
I grew up eating brazilian foods, but also japanese dishes. I remember that when I was a kid, the basic lunch meal was rice, beans, meat and a salad. Also, there is a brazilian dish called "feijoada" that I ate a lot when I was younger. From the japanese cuisine, I regularly ate "udon", because my mom loves to make this dish.
@jaihobalodiji1 (949)
• India
11 Jan 12
hey as you have mentioned so many cusines above in your discussion, but above them all i have never been taste.i grow up with maggies its my favourite.
@sumatix (257)
• United Arab Emirates
12 Jan 12
I am an indian so not to mention i grew up in the vast, colourful and variety of tastes of indian culture. In india itself we have enormous tastes.We are from north india so obviously had that all my life as my mom is just a great cook so the list goes with variety of paranthas. cholle bhature, chat,pani poori..etc etc.
Apart from it we have a number of dishes from all parts of our country some to mention are : dosa, idli, khakhra, thepla, saag, gatte ki sabji,mirch ka salan, shami kabab, rogan gosht...etc etc...its a long list......
@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
10 Jan 12
It is South Indian cuisine all the way; I relish it most. Not much spicy and oily ...yet quite tasty and healthy enough. Though I have tried my hands at ethnic delicacies of various places, it is still the South Indian stuff which is more palatable to me. May be it is due largely to the regularity part of it all !
