International Cuisine

Chinese cooking styles draw on local and easily available ingredients so for the two most famous cuisines Szechwan and Cantonese, the distinction...

French cookery is highly regarded throughout the world. Its impressive heritage intimidates many novice cooks but its current form is the result of...

Fusion food is widely misunderstood. The simplest definition is to describe it as any dish that combines ingredients or techniques from distinct...

The most common misconception about Indian food is that it is all about curry. The truth is that what is referred to as Indian food actually covers...

The fundamentals of Italian cuisine are simple - for example, Italian cooking uses olive oil rather than butter, uses either salty, highly matured...

What most people think of as being traditional Japanese food is sushi, but in fact, the dominant feature of Japanese cuisine is white rice. In...

North Africa’s Mediterranean coast, or the Maghreb, has always been a place where cultures collided and nowhere is this more evident than in the...

The key to understanding Spanish cuisine is its roots in peasant cookery – it's no wonder Spanish food is called ‘the people’s cuisine’ and it...

One typical feature of Thai cuisine is the subtle blending of the four basic tastes groups: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Many Thai dishes are...

Traditional British cookery has a diverse mixture of influences from the different European cultures with which they have long shared history. Most...