Culinary cultural diversity: Ever seen two cultures mix when it comes to food? E!


Question: Seriously, I'm in New Mexico. When I first moved to the town where I live, you couldn't get a fresh bagel anywhere in town. You could only get them frozen at the grocery store. Now they make bagels fresh and added a local touch, some places offer green chile bagels. A Jewish friend from back East said it was an abomination against God and man (he was joking) but what a great example of culinary cultural diversity! Let's hear yours!


Answers: Seriously, I'm in New Mexico. When I first moved to the town where I live, you couldn't get a fresh bagel anywhere in town. You could only get them frozen at the grocery store. Now they make bagels fresh and added a local touch, some places offer green chile bagels. A Jewish friend from back East said it was an abomination against God and man (he was joking) but what a great example of culinary cultural diversity! Let's hear yours!

This may be outside the box, but right now I'm thinking vegetarian soul food. Vegetarianism is not ethnic per se, but it is or has become a widespread cultural (or sub-cultural) phenomenon--a lifestyle choice. Soul food, in every African-American cultural tradition, is centered around meat dishes, for better or worse. I'm not against this combination or transformation; I just think it's interesting. Kind of an oxymoron.

Another thing that comes to mind is that what most people think of as Trinidadian cuisine contains many elements of Indian cuisine--e.g. curried chicken, roti, chana, etc.. Many Trinidadians are of Indian descent. At our last-day-of-class party, we were listening and dancing to the soundtrack of the film Bend it Like Beckham, and one of my older Trinidadian students got a real kick out of hearing the mother (who is hilarious) scold the young soccer/football player, "I was married at your age. You don't even want to learn how to cook daal!" She had seen the movie--also one of my favorites--and she gets a real kick out of the mother. I think she can relate.

The food we eat, the cuisine we create, like the music we create, is reflective of cross-cultural exchange. I love the diversity.

Yes. It's called fusion cuisine.

French-inspired Vietnamese food is both famous and WONDERFUL. Also, the areas of Italy that border (now ex-)Yugoslavia and parts of Germany and Austria offer an interest array of cross cultural cuisine. Did you know that Italians in those areas eat a lot of dishes with sauerkraut?

Scrambled eggs with ketchup

My step mother is Dutch, and she brought a lot of European combinations to the table.
One I remember very well was mashed potatoes, with curly kale and pieces of Rookwurst sausage.

Fried Luncheon Meat (bologna) sandwiches.

Croquettes.

I don't know if the latter 2 were foreign or not, but they were new to us, and I am including dad.

Others were mashes, for my sisters when they were tiny.

potato and carrot
carrot and parsnips
and other versions of those.
I loved them, but again I don't know if they were foreign, or just new to us.

When the British colonised India there was a great deal of culinary fusions as the Indians adapted their foods for the Brits, and Visa Versa.

Kedgeree,is an example.



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