A cuisine ([kwɪˈziːn] [ kwi-ZEEN]; from French [kɥizin], in turn from Latin coquere “to cook”) is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. Religious food laws, such as Hindu, Islamic and Jewish dietary laws, can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.
List of Cuisines by country:
AFRICAN CUISINES:
North Africa:
- Moroccan cuisine
- Algerian cuisine
- Libyan cuisine
- Tunisian cuisine
- Mauritanian cuisine
- Egyptian cuisine
- Sudanese cuisine
Horn of Africa:
- Ethiopian cuisine
- Eritrean cuisine
- Somali cuisine
East Africa:
- Burundian cuisine
- Kenyan cuisine
- Rwandan cuisine
- South Sudanese cuisine
- Tanzanian cuisine
- Zanzibari cuisine
- Ugandan cuisine
Central Africa:
- Angolan cuisine
- Cameroonian cuisine
- Cuisine of the Central African Republic
- Chadian cuisine
- Congolese cuisine
- Cuisine of Equatorial Guinea
- Gabonese cuisine
- Cuisine of São Tomé and Príncipe
Southern Africa:
- Botswana cuisine
- Cuisine of Lesotho
- Malagasy cuisine
- Malawian cuisine
- Mauritian Cuisine
- Namibian cuisine
- South African cuisine
- Cuisine of Swaziland
- Zambian cuisine
- Zimbabwean cuisine
West Africa:
- Benin cuisine
- Burkinabé cuisine
- Cameroonian cuisine
- Gambian cuisine
- Ghanaian cuisine
- Cuisine of Guinea-Bissau
- Guinean cuisine
- Ivorian cuisine
- Liberian cuisine
- Malian cuisine
- Mauritanian cuisine
- Nigerian cuisine
- Senegalese cuisine
- Sierra Leonean cuisine
- Togolese cuisine
ASIAN CUISINES:
Central Asian cuisine:
- Bukharan cuisine
- Afghan cuisine
- Kazakh cuisine
- Kyrgyz cuisine
- Tajik cuisine
- Turkmen cuisine
- Uzbek cuisine
East Asian cuisine:
- Chinese cuisine
- Japanese cuisine
- Korean cuisine
- Mongolian cuisine
- Taiwanese cuisine
Southeast Asian cuisine:
- Bruneian cuisine
- Burmese cuisine
- Cambodian cuisine
- Cuisine of East Timor
- Indonesian cuisine
- Laotian cuisine
- Macanese cuisine
- Malaysian cuisine
- Philippine cuisine
- Singaporean cuisine
- Thai cuisine
- Vietnamese cuisine
South Asian cuisine:
- Afghan cuisine
- Bangladeshi cuisine
- Bhutanese cuisine
- Indian cuisine
- Maldivian cuisine
- Nepalese cuisine
- Pakistani cuisine
- Sri Lankan cuisine
West Asian cuisine:
- Azerbaijani cuisine
- Bahraini cuisine
- Emirati cuisine
- Iranian cuisine
- Iraqi cuisine
- Kuwaiti cuisine
- Omani cuisine
- Qatari cuisine
- Saudi Arabian cuisine
- Turkish cuisine
- Yemeni cuisine
- Israeli cuisine
- Jordanian cuisine
- Lebanese cuisine
- Syrian cuisine
EUROPEAN CUISINES:
Central European cuisine:
- Austrian cuisine
- Bulgarian cuisine
- Czech cuisine
- German cuisine
- Hungarian cuisine
- Liechtensteiner cuisine
- Moldovan cuisine
- Polish cuisine
- Romanian cuisine
- Serbian cuisine
- Slovak cuisine
- Slovenian cuisine
Eastern European cuisine:
- Belarusian cuisine
- Kazakh cuisine
- Russian cuisine
- Ukrainian cuisine
- Armenian cuisine
- Azerbaijani cuisine
- Georgian cuisine
Northern European cuisine:
- Estonian cuisine
- Latvian cuisine
- Lithuanian cuisine
- Irish cuisine
- English cuisine
- Scottish cuisine
- Welsh cuisine
- Cuisine of Saint Helena
- Danish cuisine
- Finnish cuisine
- Icelandic cuisine
- Norwegian cuisine
- Swedish cuisine
Southern European cuisine:
- Cypriot cuisine
- Albanian cuisine
- Bosnian cuisine
- Croatian cuisine
- Greek cuisine
- Kosovan cuisine
- Macedonian cuisine
- Montenegrin cuisine
- Turkish cuisine
- Italian cuisine
- Maltese cuisine
- Sammarinese cuisine
- Gibraltarian cuisine
- Portuguese cuisine
- Spanish cuisine
Western European cuisine:
- Belgian cuisine
- Dutch cuisine
- French cuisine
- Monégasque cuisine
- Luxembourgian cuisine
- Swiss cuisine
OCEANIAN CUISINES:
- Australian cuisine
- New Zealand cuisine
- Tasmanian cuisine
- Christmas Island cuisine
- Pascuense cuisine
- Fijian cuisine
- Hawaiian cuisine
- Cuisine of Mariana Islands
- Cuisine of Nauru
- Cuisine of Niue
- Palauan cuisine
- Samoan cuisine
- Cuisine of the Solomon Islands
- Tongan cuisine
- Cuisine of Tuvalu
- Cuisine of Vanuatu
CUISINES OF AMERICAS:
North American cuisines:
- American cuisine
- Anguillan cuisine
- Antigua and Barbuda cuisine
- Barbadian cuisine
- Bahamian cuisine
- Belizean cuisine
- Bermudian cuisine
- Canadian cuisine
- Cayman Island cuisine
- Costa Rican cuisine
- Cuban cuisine
- Dominican Republic cuisine
- Dominica cuisine
- Greenlandic cuisine
- Grenadian cuisine
- Guatemalan cuisine
- Haitian cuisine
- Honduran cuisine
- Jamaican cuisine
- Mexican cuisine
- Nicaraguan cuisine
- Panamanian cuisine
- Puerto Rican cuisine
- Saint Lucian cuisine
- Salvadoran cuisine
- Trinidad and Tobago cuisine
- British Virgin Islands cuisine
- United States Virgin Islands cuisine
South American cuisines:
- Argentine cuisine
- Bolivian cuisine
- Brazilian cuisine
- Chilean cuisine
- Colombian cuisine
- Ecuadorian cuisine
- Paraguayan cuisine
- Peruvian cuisine
- Uruguayan cuisine
- Venezuelan cuisine
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