street-food: Cuisine

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A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques, and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation techniques, customs and ingredients combine to enable dishes unique to a region. Every cuisine evolves from the resources available in a region, and the climate, agriculture, trade routes, and cultural exchanges result in the distinctive flavors and practices that distinguish one culinary tradition from another. Because of this, cuisine serves as both a practical system for nourishment and a symbolic language through which societies communicate values and heritage. Cuisine is thus also a broad cultura…

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A Review on Ethnic Manipuri Cuisine of Northeast India: A Description of its Traditional Ingredients, Therapeutic Potential and Food Preparation Techniques. Manipur is nestled in the northeastern part of India. The word Manipur means “land of diamonds” in Sanskrit. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, referred to Manipur as the country’s “jewel.” It has a valley in the middle and is surrounded by nine mountain ranges. There are several different ethnic groups there. Because of its ethnic diversity and diverse landscape, Manipur is home to innumerable ethnic food that embodies the rich heritage and traditional flavors of the state. People from Manipur, among other things, have a p…

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Chinese regional cuisines are amongst the many different cuisines found in different provinces and prefectures of China as well as from larger overseas Chinese communities. A number of different styles contribute to Chinese cuisine, but perhaps the best known and most influential are Guangdong cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, and Sichuan cuisine. These styles are distinctive from one another due to the factors such as availability of resources, climate, geography, history, cooking techniques and lifestyle. One style may favor the generous use of garlic and shallots over chili and spices, while another may favor preparing seafood over other meats and fowl. Jiangsu cuisine favors…

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Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Significant changes occurred with the colonization of the Americas and the consequent introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, and maize, as well as sugar beet—the latter introduced in quantity in the 18th century. Italian cuisine is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated worldwide. In 2025, Italian cuisine was listed as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. The cuisine includes deeply rooted countrywide traditions as well as diverse regional dishes. Many d…

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The networks of ingredient combinations as culinary fingerprints of world cuisines.. Investigating how different ingredients are combined in popular dishes is crucial to uncover the principles behind food preferences. Here, we use data from public food repositories and network analysis to characterize and compare worldwide cuisines. Ingredients are first grouped into broader types, and each cuisine is then represented as a network in which nodes correspond to ingredient types and weighted links describe how frequently pairs of types co-occur in recipes. Cuisines differ not only in the popularity of ingredient types and range of recipe sizes, but also in the structural organization of ingred…

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Chinese cuisine comprises cuisines originating from China, that varies with the country's large population and geographic diversity, as well as from Chinese people from other parts of the world. Due to the Chinese diaspora and the historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has profoundly influenced other cuisines in Asia and beyond, with modifications made to cater to local palates. Chinese food staples like rice, soy sauce, noodles, tea, chili oil, and tofu, and utensils such as chopsticks and the wok, can now be found worldwide. The world's earliest eating establishments recognizable as restaurants in the modern sense first emerged in the Song dynasty China during the 11th and 12th…

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Dish-level carbon and nutrition dataset for 4,403 Asian recipes.. Global dietary transition is becoming imperative as the booming food systems are degrading ecosystems, while malnutrition and diet-related chronic diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent. The choices individuals make about their diets affect their health through nutrition intake and have profound implications for planetary environmental sustainability. Asian cuisines, which are widely consumed within Asia and popular globally, play a pivotal role in this dietary shift. Hence, this study establishes a Pan-Asian culinary dataset comprising 4,403 representative dishes from 48 countries and regions, capturing the region-spec…

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Peruvian cuisine refers to the culinary and gastronomical traditions of Peru, which originated in the pre-Columbian indigenous populations in its three main geographical regions along the Pacific coast, the Andes and the Amazonian areas. Some of the fare blends traditions that came after the arrival of the Spaniards in the 1530s, with immigrants from Europe (Spanish cuisine, Italian cuisine, and German cuisine), Asia (Chinese cuisine and Japanese cuisine), the Middle East, and Africa (Maghrebi cuisine and West African cuisine). Lacking ingredients often available in their original countries, these immigrants blended their recipes with those locally available in Peru. The four traditional st…