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Topic	The Only Thing I Learned From McDonald's Is That Food Around The World Sucks
adjl 07/09/19 6:33:23 PM #41:	LinkPizza posted... Nichtcrawler X posted... adjl posted... Not even. You can get a sense of a region's cuisine by making their food yourself, or going to a quality restaurant somewhere else. Uhm, no. Your cooking is based on your tastes and upbringing. "Quality Restaurants" somewhere else are always catered towards the local preferences. If you follow a recipe, you can definitely cook something to taste like it does in wherever its from. Cooking is based on taste and upbringing. But thats usually for cooking without a recipe, or without following a strict recipe. So, I think adjl is right about being able to get a sense of a regions cuisine by making it yourself. Even if it doesnt taste exactly the same, its might be similar enough to just get a sense of it... For that matter, even if it's catered toward local tastes, a decent restaurant can still mirror the real thing closely enough to get a sense of the cuisine, especially if you're in an area with enough immigrants from that region to create a market for something genuine. It won't be exactly what the locals would eat, no, but it'll give you enough of an idea to let you form an opinion. That's all that's really necessary if you're looking to explore a bit, unless you're looking to understand the cuisine in greater depth (i.e. to be able to open your own restaurant based on that theme). As far as cooking yourself goes, though, it is worth noting that regional availability of ingredients can result in different final products. To use this topic's example of stroopwafels, I believe making a genuine one usually calls for using treacle in the filling. Outside of Europe, treacle can be hard to come by, so recipes will suggest molasses instead. Of course, making stroopwafels at home also requires you to have a waffle iron that can make waffle cones and then cutting those waffles in half horizontally (making two thin halves), so that's enough of a pain that buying them is generally preferable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:924466575] in The Only T... [t:77841742]...</cite> <quote><cite>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Nichtcrawler X posted...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>Not even. You can get a sense of a region's cuisine by making their food yourself, or going to a quality restaurant somewhere else. </quote> Uhm, no. Your cooking is based on your tastes and upbringing. "Quality Restaurants" somewhere else are always catered towards the local preferences.</quote> If you follow a recipe, you can definitely cook something to taste like it does in wherever its from. Cooking is based on taste and upbringing. But thats usually for cooking without a recipe, or without following a strict recipe. So, I think adjl is right about being able to get a sense of a regions cuisine by making it yourself. Even if it doesnt taste exactly the same, its might be similar enough to just get a sense of it...</quote> For that matter, even if it's catered toward local tastes, a decent restaurant can still mirror the real thing closely enough to get a sense of the cuisine, especially if you're in an area with enough immigrants from that region to create a market for something genuine. It won't be exactly what the locals would eat, no, but it'll give you enough of an idea to let you form an opinion. That's all that's really necessary if you're looking to explore a bit, unless you're looking to understand the cuisine in greater depth (i.e. to be able to open your own restaurant based on that theme). As far as cooking yourself goes, though, it is worth noting that regional availability of ingredients can result in different final products. To use this topic's example of stroopwafels, I believe making a genuine one usually calls for using treacle in the filling. Outside of Europe, treacle can be hard to come by, so recipes will suggest molasses instead. Of course, making stroopwafels at home also requires you to have a waffle iron that can make waffle cones and then cutting those waffles in half horizontally (making two thin halves), so that's enough of a pain that buying them is generally preferable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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