Opinions on Mediterranean cuisine?
>>20980483First things first, there's no such thing as a unified "Mediterranean" cuisine. The med countries are wildly different from each other. If we look at them on a case-by-case basis, we have:>FrenchThe inventors of haute cuisine and the standard by which all other cuisines are measured. The French mog the rest of the world so hard it's unreal.>ItalianTasty fare that's usually easy to prepare and fairly cheap to boot. There's a reason they influenced so many cuisines across the world. Their deli meats are also S-tier.>GreekThey have seven or so dishes that are absolutely incredible but the rest can be charitably described as an aquired taste. Some of their more esoteric dishes feel like something you'd eat in Denmark rather than a warm southern country. They have surprisingly good cheeses and sausages but the good stuff never leaves Greece so it doesn't really matter.>SpainSeafood galore, S-tier olive oil, and great roasts. Their deli meats are also good but nowhere near as good as the Italian stuff. Basically, Spain is store brand Italy outside of seafood.>TurkishA vegetarian's wet dream. It's extremely easy to find delicious meat-free food in Turkish cuisine. Their desserts are also kino.>NafriWild use of spices to the point where they overpower most dishes, but some would say that's the point.My analysis is 200% accurate and anyone who disagrees with me is a mega faggot.
Doesn't exist, it's not a thing. It's just American stupidity.
>>20980530only thing I disagree with is lumping all of North Africa together. you started off saying there is no unified cuisine, but then made that mistake here. there's some similarities of course, but broadly speaking Moroccan cuisine is quite different from Egyptian, for example. Egypt is like a melting pot of Greek/Turkish/Arabic cuisine. Stuff like dolma, falafel, hummus, shawarma etc. you can find that stuff in Morocco too but it's like getting Italian food in French. Traditional Moroccan food isn't always that heavy on spices, it can be, but they have a lot of simple stewed dishes as well (tagine). preserved lemon and argan oil also make for a very distinct taste.I'm not as familiar with Algerian/Tunisian or Libyan food, but from what I understand they have a lot of French and Italian influence respectively because colonialism
It's all carbs and D tier cheese
>>20980483Yeah, sure. Thanks, man.
>>20980483very oily, and lots of vinegar on everything.it's good.
>>20980530You should differentiate between northern/inland France and mediterranean France. The former edges more towards the haut cuisine as well as savoury, saucy dishes. The latter is closer to Italian cuisine (Nice even used to be part of Italy). I know the same argument can be made for most countries on the list, but France seems to have the most diversity to me due to its size and only a small part being in proximity to the mediterranean sea.
>>20980560Egyptian is the odd one out in North Africa and the only difference between Libyan cuisine and the rest of non Egyptian North Africa is the heavy Italian influence. The food is moreorless identical in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with small regionalisms here or there (I don't think Morocco or Tunisia eat tlitli IE long couscous natively, Morocco tends to prefer sweeter flavours more than its siblings and Tunisia goes harder on fish than the others).Despite the small differences, the major themes between them stay generally the same: disharmony on a plate. Cinnamon, garlic and buttermilk do not belong on chicken together, yet all of north Africa does that shit. t. guy who used to have an Algerian cleaning lady, has known a bazillion Moroccans and used to put his hoohoodilly in Tunisian chacha (and currently lives one neighbourhood over from the durkadurka part of town, where they sell camel meat and milk as well as seasoned fermented ghee, hallmarks of NA home cooking)
>>20980917>France seems to have the most diversityItaly has more due to its historic rule over trade routes. That's the whole reason the new world exists; Italy controlled nearly all trade from the East and Africa into Europe so Spain EtAl searched for ways to circumvent it. Northwestern Italy is French food. Lots of southern Italy has stuff you'd mistake for Greek. Sicilians are basically Arabs in all ways, including cuisine. The northeast has heavy German and Slavic influence as well as native forms of several dishes you'd think we're Hungarian. France has French, Italian and German influenced stuff and that's pretty much it.
adriatic countries are not considered meds
>>20980530lebanonfood from lebanon is amongst the best
Anything from the northern part is good.No Türkiyye, you don't count, just fork over the kebaps.
>>20981731>France is med, Italy and Greece are notOkay
>>20981731The Adriatic basin is literally a part of the Mediterranean sea.
>>20981785shut the your whore mouthitaly and greece are meds, and only marginally adriatic.you don't know what you're talking about im talking about croatia, slovenia, bosnia, montenegro and albania, which are not considered to be mediteranean countries in the sense when we talk about med countries
>>20981731Haaaa. You read that one time in a dogshit article from far, far away
>>20981792>I'm a naive little girl
>>20981792>Italy is only marginally Adriatic
>>20981792Two of your countries have less than 15 km of coastline. Croatia is as mediterranean as Italy, Albania is as mediterranean as Turkey. Montenegro frankly I don't care about
>>20980483Top tier.
>>20980538But whatabout the Mediterranean diet??
>>20980483enter your fucking subheadline faggot
>>20981896Slovenia has 43 km of coastlinet. Slovene
>>20980530zero chance this loser ever set foot outside North America.
>>20980483Tastes good
>>20980483Best cuisine on earth, especially the seafood.
>>20980483debate ended
>>20983476France is not med fren.
>>20981792And Italy and France have less in common with "med cuisine" than Britain does.Neither country makes everything taste like a sour armpit like the rest of the countries under this imaginary "Mediterranean cuisine" label.
>>20980530If you combine all these you basically just described Sicily. That island wipes its ass with haute cuisine.
>>20980483Italian > Spanish > Greek > French > Lebanese > Turkish > the rest
