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From what I've gathered there's three philosophies for food:
>Simple but harmonious combinations of high quality ingredients (Britian, France, Italy, Japan)
>Grab whatever's around and cover it in spices (Mexico, India, Thailand)
>The inbetweener (Spain, Middle East)
Which do you think is best?
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>>21863846
Allow your palate to dictate where you’d like to go.
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>>21863828
Tricky question:
I'm going to exclude Japan for the moment as I find it just like overpriced canapes.
Britain, France and Italy tend to have good quality ingredients and do their own thing with them.
Mexico, India, Thailand also do their own thing with the peppers and spices they have to hand although Mexican is a bit 'samey' - I would put it as an inbetweener.
Inbetweeners also have good things to offer, so I can't knock them.
It's good to mix and match.
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>>21863828
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I don't know if it's my IBS or me being British Australian but the first tier is just what I prefer for 90% of my meals. I can put a roast lamb in a tray over potatoes with some oil and garlic and paired with a red wine it will stand next to the most perfectly made spice heavy cuisine. I love Indian, hard to find authentic Mexican or Spanish food where I live, but all those are cuisines that lose their charm when you consume them regularly in my opinion, it's just good as an anomaly in your diet. Whereas I'm always down for a fresh authentic pasta dish after a long day of work..
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>hard to find authentic Mexican or Spanish food where I live
Same here but I have eaten at them.
> but all those are cuisines that lose their charm when you consume them regularly in my opinion, it's just good as an anomaly in your diet.
Yup.
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Idk I love Greek food. Eating in Greece I felt the most satisfaction. But I like all those cuisines, there's just something about Greek food that I can't put my finger on it.
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>>21863828
Spanish food isn't spicy THOUGH
and the japs love to make everything all pikachu as fuck
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>>21864159
Yes, we saw your earlier post here>>21863835
and ignored it. No need to reply again.
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>>21863828
>>Simple but harmonious combinations of high quality ingredients (Britian, France, Italy, Japan)
This only really describes Italy and Japan. Britain would be in the "grab whatever" tier and France in its own "cooking professionally for social elites" tier. The modern conception of restaurants (professional setting, not just a shithole that serves slop to plebs) and professional cooks are purely a French invention. Italians and brits certainly didn't have them. In fact their royal (and later aristocratic) courts hired French chefs to cook for them, or to train their own chefs. That's why everything to do with professional cooking is French, down to the title "chef".
So putting French cuisine next to Italian and Japanese, let alone British, is either complete bait or just plain culinary illiteracy. French cuisine is at the top in terms of technique, quality, and culture while the next one down is a VERY distant second.
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First one obviously. If you ingredients are more complex than the dish, might as well just eat them directly. The best style of cooking is emergent in nature. A dish should be more than the sum of it's ingredients.
French cooking is a good example. British or Japanese not so much.
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>>21863828
No.
there was a /pol/ graphic about this a while back.
Home cooking is easy and heavy with limited but bold flavors.
Batcholer chow is filling heavy and ruffly combined if not carelessly. Absolute slop.
Goid slop is the same game but not combined, let's her graze and pick as opposed to make up her mind what to have.
Even this bs is better than your attempt at"3 philosophies of food"
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>>21863828
True but there are some inharmonious dishes in japan and France where a lot of things are mixed together to make a stew. Also France is anything but simple at time, like that Poulet à la vaissie dish. Japan also might be simple but they go autistic for the execution.
Also don't put fucking br*tain next to fucking France, Italy and Japan when it come to food.
Some culture have just trash cooking. Look at afro-american stuff online, they drench shit in a thousand of cheap powered spices and aromatic. Powdered garlic and onions instead of the real thing. They put so much of it and any of them; can you guess what happen? Basically the equivalent of mixing all the colors which is some shit color brown. Basically a waste of spices because you can't taste most of them, only some cacophonic mix. Using the maximum amount of aromatics and flavors so you can taste them all and they all work well together is the best way to cook.
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Shut up NoSL
>>21863828
Either you have good ingredients or you have to hide the fact that you don't. Many such cases all around the world.
>adding sugar to tomato sauce
>adding soy sauce to beef
>adding Chili pepper to sausage
>drown everything in cream or butter (mutes the flavour)
>add fennel seeds to numb the taste buds
>add cloves for the same reason
>add sichuan pepper for the same reason
>add vinegar to give wilted vegetables a spike
>breading and browning, same reason for nuggets and patties
>salt or msg, same reason
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>>21863828
>>Simple
>France
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>>21863828
My favorite is The Inbetweener although it's a close call with Simple but harmonious being second place
The spice mix can taste good on occasion but I think it's super overrated especially mexican cuisine in particular
>ground meat that tastes like chili and lime
>chicken that tastes like chili and lime
>rice that tastes like chili and lime
>veggies that taste like chili and lime
>bread that tastes like chili and lime
That's all mexican dishes in a nutshell. Chili and lime is a decent combination but using the same two flavors to define every single dish in your nation is just lame plus most of the time the food is served as some form of slop