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	Cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin.
		New cuisines are constantly evolving, as certain aesthetics rise and fall in popularity among professional chefs and their clientele.
		Cuisines of the Americas are based on the cuisines of the countries from which the immigrant peoples came, primarily Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuisine (461 words)

	Spain Travel Info \| Asia Travel Europe
		Varied and delicious are the terms that define a cuisine that is simple, hearty and natural, that relies on the excellence of the local produce, and that is to be found in Aragon, La Rioja and Navarre.
		The Mediterranean cuisine, associated with the famous Mediterranean diet that has been shown to be so beneficial for the health, is based on the "Holy Trinity" of wheat, the olive and the vine, with other important ingredients being: rice and legumes; garlic, greens and vegetables; cheese and yoghurt; fish, meat and eggs; and fruit.
		This is a school of cuisine which is as varied as it is complete, and which, in the Mediterranean areas of Spain, is interpreted with local differences and twists.
	www.asiatravel.com /spain/spaininfo5.html (1878 words)

	Asian cuisine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of East Asia and for fusion dishes based on combining them.
		It does not usually include Pacific cuisine, also called Polynesian cuisine, or the cuisines of southern, central and western Asia, including Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Asian_cuisine.html (356 words)

	Ethnic Cuisine: Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cuisine in this country of 70,000,000 people differs strikingly between the north, south and central regions, but two key features stand out.
		A key portion of every meal, north, south and central, is a platter containing cucumbers, bean threads, slices of hot pepper, and sprigs of basil, coriander, mint and a number of related herbs found principally in southeast Asian markets.
		Northern cuisine exhibits fewer herbs and vegetables than the other regions because its climate is less hospitable than that of the Mekong Delta.
	www.sallys-place.com /food/ethnic_cusine/vietnam.htm (1568 words)

	Asia Food Features
		It is impossible to separate cuisine from culture and the prevailing sensitivity to nature that permeates all things Japanese.
		The beauty of Japanese cuisine, of all Japanese artistic tradition in fact, is the subtle art of balance.
		Japanese cuisine goes far beyond food: it is the whole cycle from harvest to table with no aspect taken for granted.
	www.asiafood.org /country_japan.cfm (1294 words)

	Nyonya Recipes - Heritage Cuisine Of The Straits Settlements
		The spirit of NYONYA cuisine is not just about food and cooking style, it is also about a way of life that flourished during the Straits settlements of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the remnants of which, is still found in Singapore and parts of Malaysia.
		Confined as it was to the domestic sphere of a small and elite social group, Nyonya food was not widely known and appreciated until after the independence of the Malay peninsula and the social changes that have occurred between Malaysia and Singapore that have made it so.
		Sweet potato leaves, tiny sour carambola, unripe jackfruit and the heart of the banana bud are all transformed in the kitchen, added to and blended with aromatic leaves such as kaffir, turmeric, pandan, and polygonum or laksa leaf.
	www.asianrecipesonline.com /nyonya/baba_nyonya.php (808 words)

	The history of Asian cuisine
		These peasant cuisines usually consist of a limited number of relatively simple dishes, since a wide variety of ingredients is not available, nor is the time to spend on fancy preparation.
		The original cuisine of the South East is probably the peasant cuisine of Thailand.
		Citrus flavors are important to the region's cuisines, especially lime, which is native to the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia.
	asiarecipe.com /cuisine.html (2435 words)

	[12-29-99] Andrew Lam, Culinary Secrets From The Julia Child Of Southeast Asian Cuisine
		The culinary artist behind this Southeast Asian success story, Irene Khin, says travel -- especially to Asia -- is what keeps her on top of The New York Food chain.
		Last year she spoke at a seminar on Southeast Asia sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute.
		Asia remains the source, her art's life line.
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/5.26/991229-chef.html (1113 words)

	AsiaCuisine: New Asia Cuisine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Asia Cuisine must be established with passion from within the industry in order to get full support from the industry.
		An example is how he ‘twists’ the traditional Rockefellar oysters dish into a New Asia Cuisine one by inducing lemon grass and lime leaves in cream, uses char siew instead of bacon and lettuce and cabbage instead of spinach.
		Chef Sam Leong, chef of Chinese cuisine at the Four Seasons, says an example of New Asia Cuisine is their lobster dish, baked in puff pastry.
	www.asiacuisine.com.sg /Nacws/1996/9/3/index.html (1124 words)

	Ethnic Cuisine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		African American cuisine predominant in the southern United States is influenced by African styles of preparation and cooking.
		As the world's fifth largest country, Brazil is famous for its eclectic cuisine influenced and nurtured by its many regional ethnic backgrounds.
		Elaine Sosa slices and dices her way through this ancient civilization to find this country's cuisine is full of sugar and spice (and everything nice).
	www.sallys-place.com /food/ethnic_cusine/ethnic_cusine.htm (653 words)

	Restaurant Nora/Asia Nora Organic Cuisine in Washington, D. C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asia Nora is a warm, aesthetically pleasing restaurant featuring the simple, healthful dishes of Asian cuisine with an East-meets-West interpretation.
		Asia Nora we want your evening to be personal and relaxing - our dress code is simple: we do not have one, just come as you like.
		Nora and Asia Nora, both showcase Nora's trademark of organic cooking prepared in a healthful way.
	www.noras.com (376 words)

	Tasting the Food of Southeast Asia
		Tasting the food of Southeast Asia is one of the most enjoyable and accessible ways of experiencing Southeast Asia in the Delaware Valley.
		Across Southeast Asia one finds distinctive and common ingredients: coconut milk, lemon grass, laos (a root in the ginger family), palm sugar, local fruits, Asian basil, mint, shrimp paste or fish sauce, the varied spices of the Spice Islands--and liberal amounts of that import from the Americas: chilies.
		Unfortunately, only two of the indigenous cuisines of Southeast Asia are easily available in the Delaware Valley, but happily there is an abundance of excellent restaurants for these two, Thai and Vietnamese.
	camden-www.rutgers.edu /~wood/food.html (640 words)

	Vietnamese Cuisine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In fact, it is sometimes referred to as "Cambodian Style." In Vietnam people are less likely to make these dishes at home than to buy them, either in shops or at roadside stands.
		A fruit that grows on a tree native to Asia and northern Africa.
		The pods of this fruit contain a sour-sweet pulp that is used in cooking.
	www.cs.virginia.edu /~jy8y/ic/old_ic/Docs/Cuisine/vietnam.html (1967 words)

	Travel guide / Thailand / Cuisine / Vietnamese cuisine
		Vietnamese cuisine of the last 200 years is a unique combination of Asian and French cooking.
		Meats are less important in Vietnamese cuisine than are fish and particularly seafood.
		However, in Vietnamese cuisine noodles are often added to the soup.
	www.cockatoo.com /english/thailand/thailand_vietnamese_cuisine.htm (378 words)

	Wokme.com Asian Cooking Guide
		The food of Asia is popular the world over and it is no wonder why.
		In Indonesia and Malaysia pork is rarely used due to the prevalence of Islam, the Vietnamese retain the flavors of centuries of French occupation while the arrival of the Portuguese across all of southeast Asia brought the chili from the Americas in the 16th century.
		All Asian cuisines maintain their own identities derived from their own distinctive cultures but they also have a great deal in common as their influences cross their boarders and share histories as well as many ingredients and methods of cooking.
	www.wokme.com (308 words)

	Thai Cuisine
		Thailand is a small country in Southeast Asia, sharing a peninsula with Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
		Like all local and national cuisines, the food of Thailand reveals a great deal about the country -- it is a palimpsest of its political history, its trade, and its geography.
		In Southeast Asia, only the Vietnamese eat with chopsticks, so next time you'll know why your waiter in the Thai restaurant coughs when you ask for chopsticks.
	www.cuisinenet.com /glossary/thai1.html (383 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: Asia major - Asian cuisine is most popular in Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Put the bouillabaisse on the back burner and hang the angel-hair pasta out to dry From Chinois to Chinatown, hand-cut noodles to succulent roast duck, Asian cuisine has conquered L.A. And nothing this year on either coast is as fashionable as an old-fashioned French bistro.
		Los Angeles, of course, is where this culinary movement--known variously as fusion cuisine, Pacific Rim cuisine and That Stuff They Used to Do at City Restaurant--started in the late '70s; where four of the top five food scores in the Zagat survey are earned by Asian restaurants; where mu shu pizza was born.
		Their Asian-esque salads are forever in the shadow of the Thai larbs at Renu Nakorn in Norwalk, which epitomize Isaan cooking, the cuisine of the northern region near the Laotian border.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1346/is_n8_v43/ai_20910667 (1220 words)

	Asiatour / library / dining guide / Japanese cuisine
		Japanese cuisine is to Asia what French cuisine is to Europe: the ultimate in elegance of food preparation.
		However, the French nouvelle cuisine had, knowingly or unknowingly, adopted quite a bit of the Japanese philosophy of food preparation, as for example the great importance put on the freshness of ingredients and exercising restraint in cooking to avoid overcooking.
		Japanese cuisine has a number of fish soups; the most peculiar, however, is miso soup, made of dissolved soy bean paste.
	www.asiatour.com /x-librar/dining/japanese.htm (1159 words)

	List 2000 : Gastronomie / Cuisine internationale / Cuisine asiatique / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asia Food : collection of recipes, glossary, and feature articles about the cuisines of Asia.
		Malaysian Cuisine : A meeting of cultures, a wealth of culinary delights...
		Turkish and Ottoman Cuisine : The importance of culinary art for the Ottoman Sultans is evident to every visitor of...
	www.list2000.com.tr /fr/food_drink/international_cuisine/asia/index.asp (367 words)

	Preserving America's Culinary Heritage
		Its contemporary regional cuisine, known as "local food" by residents, is a truly amazing fusion of diverse culinary influences.
		Cuisine, Texas is a virtual encyclopedia of Texas cooking, with more than 375 recipes.
		Interspersed among the recipes are engaging discussions of the different ethnic cuisine's, flavored with delightful stories of some of the cooks who created or perfected the recipes.
	www.foodbooks.com /regional.htm (1837 words)

	1Up Travel : Taiwan - Cuisines of Taiwan.
		Szechuan dishes is distinguisted by the clever use of various spices.
		Taiwanese cuisine is dominated by seafood and noted for its large variety of soups.
		The food is mild in taste, is often slightly oily, vinegar and garlic are common ingredients; it is frequently fried, stewed or braised.
	www.1uptravel.com /international/asia/taiwan/cuisine.html (548 words)

	Asia Society Websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asia Society's family of websites offers a broad range of resources on Asia-related events and information.
		This site is an information portal for the Asia Society-sponsored National Campaign on International Education in the Schools, whose mission is to expand our nation's investments in international studies by stimulating teaching and learning about world history, languages, cultures and current affairs in every school in America.
		This is a one-stop gateway to the best information on Asia on the internet including a daily news digest, special reports, interviews, links, books, country profiles, experts and much more.
	www.askasia.org /websites (358 words)

	Asia Nora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asia Nora, is a serene oasis in the city, featuring simple, healthful dishes from across Asia with a unique and artful interpretation of fusion cuisine, using the best seasonal organic ingredients.
		The warm, intimate space at Asia Nora is created by a wonderful display of Asian artifacts, soft furnishings and mirrors.
		Asia Nora's desserts capture the flavors of the orient with Jasmine & Cardamom Crème Brulée and tropical fruit ices and sorbets.
	www.noras.com /asianora/index.shtm (245 words)

	Savannah Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the moment Saigon swung its door open for business until this writing, it’s nearly impossible to reach Rachel; by telephone or face-to-face; the place is packed and she’s taking care of business.
		It’s a hybrid cuisine influenced by soups and oodles of noodle dishes, curries and satays from the East.
		There's a decently-stocked bar, a range of interesting beers (including Asian brews, of course), and a yum yum dessert list.
	www.savannah-online.com /full_story.cfm?sect=CitySceneDining&id=2425 (812 words)

	How inventive is cuisine in Asia? - www.chefabroad.com
		You'll be surprised to find that every tier of chefs and cooks in Asia find innovating to be essential to survival.
		The ice is dribbled with sweet syrup in red, green and brown, making it one of the most colourful desserts in Asia.
		Indeed there isn't a chef or cook in Asia that does not recognise the need to innovate, to set their business apart from others, to create a distinct flavour that make their own mark and brand.
	www.chefabroad.com /content/view/41 (445 words)

	Palace of Asia Indian Restaurant New Jersey
		Indian cuisine is among the most varied and enjoyable of all ethnic foods because of terrain, climate and the infusion of people of many different religions into Indian culture over thousands of years.
		By toning down the use of chilies, as well as some of the richer ingredients, Palace of Asia offers recipes that are gentler, but retain the flavor, aroma and texture for which Indian cuisine is rightfully famous.
		Palace of Asia is pleased to present a wide selection of Indian haute cuisine made from the finest and freshest ingredients.
	www.palace-of-asia.com (212 words)

	Thai Food
		The Central region also has what is called the Royal cuisine, a more sophisticated version of the regional cuisine.
		With Thai cuisine enjoying an outstanding world-wide reputation for its unique flavours and tastes, there's no better way to learn about this cooking style than in Thailand itself.
		I have met folk who actually didn't like rice and although it was tempting to send him back home immediately with a "you're in the wrong country" retort if didn't cause much of a problem at all.
	www.thaifocus.com /thaifood.htm (1057 words)

	Sweden's taste for Asian cuisine (tdctrade.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Swedish diners are developing a taste for a new breed of cuisine which is neither truly European nor Asian, but a fusion of the two.
		Restaurateurs are finding innovative ways to present meats and fish with noodles and sauces, curries, rice and spices which usually never get seen on the same table.
		But now the wave of interest in food from Asia is being pushed into the area where Asian food can score strongly - in freshness, nutrition and raw material content, for which Swedish consumers are prepared to pay.
	www.tdctrade.com /imn/imn180/europe3.htm (266 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This pulp is used throught CUISINE(Indian, India) and CUISINE(`Southeast Asian', `Southeast Asia') as a flavorful souring agent; it is also used in beverages in Mexico.
		The best is whole ripe pods, which will be dark brown and cracked, exposing some of the pulp.
		Similarly, garlic is stronger when cooked at higher heat; baked whole cloves of garlic are very mild, while sautéd minced garlic is intense.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /keith/cookbook/ingredients/DB (1633 words)

	Zest Restaurant
		We strive to deliver excellence in service and cuisine to surprise and delight our guests.
		Zest's "modern canadian cuisine" celebrates the ethnic diversity of Canada.
		Our menu features an exciting range of flavours influenced by the cuisine of Asia, Italy and France.
	www.zestfonthill.com (162 words)

	Savannah Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Another astonishing observation is how enthusiastically the townies embraced the place, revealing our taste for adventurous cuisine.
		Open for lunch 11am-4pm (from noon Sat & Sun), and dinner from 5pm seven days a week, customers can opt for take-out or white tablecloth dining.
		You’ll see happy renditions of Buddha on the bar and elsewhere, along with art and relics from Asia.
	www.savannah-online.com /full_story.cfm?sect=TourismDining&id=2425 (812 words)

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