One Cuisine Forever!

What if you could have only one type of cuisine (e.g. Italian, French, etc.) forever? Which would you choose?

I feel like this thread MIGHT have been done before, but its long enough ago that I'm sure this one is fine.

The top 5 for me:

#5 Indian: A much more wide variety than most people give it credit for, I just don't think I could eat such heavily spiced foods every day. I don't just mean in terms of heat, but number of ingredients and so on.

#4 French: Amazing sauces, amazing baking, but I think it falters beyond those elements. French sauces developed historically because the French wanted to eat meat but didn't want to cure or preserve for use throughout the year like, say, Italians did with cured meats and sausages. What resulted were sauces so good, that you could put them on rancid beef and it would still be delicious! Thats no longer an issue thanks to refrigeration, but there is this lingering issue where freshness, vibrancy, and simplicity aren't as emphasized as I'd like. French wines are, of course, great.

#3: Japanese: I adore Japanese food. The noodles and sauces have wonderful complexity, and I love seafood, and I LOVE sushi. The only thing that Japanese lacks for me is RELATIVELY few non-seafood dishes compared to some other cuisines. Still, Japanese

#2: American. People who think American food is just hot dogs and burgers, or think that there is no such thing as American cuisine, are just wildly ignorant of the food of America. American BBQ, southwestern cuisine, and pacific coast asian-influenced American food are all incredibly good, complex, and fresh. They also run the gamut from cheap homestyle foods to stuff appropriate for fine dining. And American versions of pizza are awesome. The one thing that is somewhat lacking is baking, and I think it could use more seafood. The variety is great though, reflecting the cultural diversity of America. America has wine that competes with the best from France and Italy, and is also certainly one of the world's leaders in excellent microbrew beer.

#1: Italian!!!! I love Italian food! You get a huge variety, tons of seafood, tons of great pork and other meat products. Italy has great cheeses, great wine, great liquors. And the pasta, of course, is incredible! My *only* issue with Italian food is that, in my opinion, they tend to overcook their vegetables. But no cuisine is perfect and overall Italian wins!


What is your #1? Or better yet, what is your top 5!?

I can only include relatively major cuisines in the poll, and I had to gropu some cuisines that are somewhat different, but you are free to vote "other"

American, easy. We're a melting pot culture, we have melting pot food. Plus USA #1

I love others, too, but if we're talking "forever", I can't be boxed in.

LucyDuke said:

American, easy. We're a melting pot culture, we have melting pot food. Plus USA #1

I love others, too, but if we're talking "forever", I can't be boxed in.

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Yeah, its a hard toss up for me between American and Italian, but at the end of the day the freshness and simplicity emphasis in so much Italian is great.

Indian of course. Duh.

Chinesse. A Billion people can't be wong.

There's a billion people in India too I thought.

ParadigmShifter said:

Indian of course. Duh.

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Dis one.

Plus American cuisine is like plastic cheese, cheese in a tube, spray on cheese, etc.

I don't know anything about cuisine.

ParadigmShifter said:

Plus American cuisine is like plastic cheese, cheese in a tube, spray on cheese, etc.

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uhh... American varieties of cheese are surely as good as Indian! They perhaps don't match the best Europe has to offer, but they are close.

I think there is a general failure of some non-Americans to realize the difference between the most mass-market version of something, and whats actually available, in America.

This is the case with beer, cheese, wine, "artisanal" products in general.

Yeah, if it's forever, I definitely pick "American" only because America's taken so much from other cultures that I think American-Asian and American-Italian and whatnot would definitely be included in the mix!

I'd eat New York pizza the rest of my life.

USA #1

American cuisine is fake cheese the way American beer is Budweiser.

If I didn't have to pay for it in this scenario I'd choose Chinese

I absolutely love the stuff but it costs way too much

Budweiser is Czech I thought (somewhere around there anyway).

Mexican, but not real Mexican.

Indian, its variety is so large that you probably wouldn't get bored eventually anyway. Plus, Indian food tastes great in nearly all situations.

American as a second for the precise same reason.

Just as long as it's not Belgian food. My God our cuisine is boring. (it's almost the same as Dutch for those who know Dutch cuisine, if not think German with smaller portions and less cabbage)

Brazilian, because from my experience it is the only one (together with perhaps the French Cuisine) that one can eat everyday without getting sick of it.

I agree with Fifty that American Cuisine is underrated. They do have great stuff. But after spending two weeks in the Memphis area I can say for sure there is only so much BBQ and deep fried food one can eat before starting to hate it. I actually loved it for the first days, but after one week all I wanted was a home cooked brazilian meal. I could eat the rice, beans, mashed potatos and beef my mom makes every day for the rest of my life and be happy.

ParadigmShifter said:

Indian of course. Duh.

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Also I'm surprised people like greased lard (American "cuisine)

Australian, because that means "Australian fusion" or whatever, because it means pretty much any other national cuisine which I might like fits into it.