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The 50 best foods in the world?
« Thread Started on Sept 8, 2011, 8:47am »		[Quote]
Naturally, any such list has little or no validity, but at least CNN has had the decency to provide photographs of many of the dishes, and there are quite a few that I would like to try.

50 most delicious foods
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« Reply #1 on Sept 8, 2011, 10:18am »		[Quote]
I think most if not all deserve to be there, maybe I'd change the positions a bit.

And I can't think of any that might be missing. Maybe something famous from Mexico? Or Turkey?
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« Reply #2 on Sept 8, 2011, 10:26am »		[Quote]
Haven't tried most of them (and as I'm allergic to shelfish am unlikely to try a lot of them)...it's very subjective isn't it? can't be helped.

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« Reply #3 on Sept 8, 2011, 11:23am »		[Quote]
Didn't see any pies mentioned.
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Re: The 50 best foods in the world?
« Reply #4 on Sept 8, 2011, 1:11pm »		[Quote]
Yes! Pies!

Yum................

Lots of stuff on there that I've never heard of.

What about toast and Marmite?
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« Reply #5 on Sept 8, 2011, 1:36pm »		[Quote]
I'd just like to comment that Marmite, and the upside down country equivalent, Vegemite, is the food of the devil - however that is a personal opinion and I will fight to the death to defend anyone who wishes to consume that vile and obnoxious spread.

However, toast.......... such a versatile, satisfying and excellent food underestimated since Ugg burnt the bread his life partner, Nogg, who had spent days making from wild wheat in the south of France a million years BC, had placed near the fire.
Nogg exclaimed, "And what the hell are we going to do with that now you bloody Neanderthal?"
Ugg calmly replied, "Hmmm, maybe put some butter and jam on it? Poached eggs? Baked beans? Croque monsieur with bechamal sauce? Grilled tomatoes? Bacon and black pudding? Salami? My God petal, the list is endless."
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« Reply #6 on Sept 8, 2011, 2:00pm »		[Quote]
Vegemite is quite foul.

Marmite is pure Ambrosia.....

I had croque monsieur for lunch yesterday as it happens....
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« Reply #7 on Sept 8, 2011, 5:30pm »		[Quote]
HW, there are two from Mexico, from my scan of the list.

The list is interesting most of all because it has so many things that I've never tried, but would like to.

I think the order of the dishes is pretty meaningless in terms of "best".

The one real quibble I have is with the croissant, when it's so painfully obvious that a brioche is more subtle, interesting, and yummy.
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« Reply #8 on Sept 8, 2011, 5:37pm »		[Quote]
I am dissapointed that all that made it to the list from Canada was Maple syrup! Although I do understand as we are such a young Country compared to most of the rest where they have had centuries to form these wonderful dishes.

As soon as I figure out how to load my new camera to my lap top, I have a picture of my lunch on a stop along the way to a recent trip to Timmins for a visit with my Anyporter friends in mind.

Coming soon!
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« Reply #9 on Sept 8, 2011, 5:40pm »		[Quote]
Well, croissants are the only thing from France that made the list. I'm sure that we have all noticed that the Asian mafia is at work here -- normal since they outnumber us!

But I absolutely cannot wait to start simmering some bourguignon meat in coconut milk along with those other herbs except maybe the one that I have never heard of.
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« Reply #10 on Sept 8, 2011, 9:24pm »		[Quote]
The list appears to be made up of things that people like that got mentioned the most times. So, there are things on it that, although they might be enjoyed by informed palates (that's us), would not be counted as "the best". Personally, lasagna would never make the list if it had to count on me, nor would fajitas. And fried chicken? Come on, it's good, but a best food? Maybe I missed it, but perfect barbecue would definitely be a best food, certainly before a hamburger. And lobster??! Surely that was included as many people's idea of a ritzy dish. I can think of so many other more worthy contenders for lobster's place on the list.

Do you mean the #1 entry, Kerouac? With your imaginative use of Asian ingredients, I can't imagine which ingredient you wouldn't know, unless maybe it's galangal. Shoot -- now I wish I hadn't looked it up, because I crave it without having ever tried it!
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Re: The 50 best foods in the world?
« Reply #11 on Sept 8, 2011, 9:38pm »		[Quote]
I'm not chopping up a chihuahua in my pot! There will be enough meat with the beef!
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« Reply #12 on Sept 10, 2011, 6:17am »		[Quote]
I didn't notice a simple charbroiled (BBQ'd?) porterhouse steak...
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« Reply #13 on Sept 10, 2011, 9:11pm »		[Quote]
Isn't goat the most eaten meat in the world? Surely there should be at least one good goat dish.
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« Reply #14 on Sept 10, 2011, 9:40pm »		[Quote]
Okay, I am determined to have some rendang, but I don't have any trip to Indonesia or Malaysia planned in the next couple of weeks, so my own version is now simmering away. Since the time is approaching midnight, it is not planned as a meal for today, though.

And since there are two nearby Sri Lankan goat butchers, now I also have a sudden urge to try some goat meat, which is their specialty, all the more so because I don't think I have every knowingly eaten goat meat in my life. How could I have missed it?
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« Reply #15 on Sept 11, 2011, 1:35am »		[Quote]
You probably have eaten it. Often it is mis-described as "mutton".

Kid doesn't have a strong flavour - it is very similar to young lamb, but leaner.

A somewhat-Caribbean goat stew is one of the main reasons I bought my $1 crockpot. Goat requires long, slow cooking. I remember the first time I tried to make (anglo-Caribbean) Curried Goat. After three or four hours, it was tasty but impossibly chewy. I left it in the crockpot at low overnight and it was heavenly. (Old crockpots have a VERY LOW low).

Fettucine Alfredo - are they fucking nuts???? Misspelled too. It does provide the immediate mouth pleasure extremely fatty foods do, but after a few bites, it is nauseating. My friends in Rome laughed at tourists for eating such crap. And these friends were not at all effete food snobs.

Warm brownie and vanilla ice-cream? Cafeteria crap.

Gelato is not a dessert. It is a between-meal snack, with a ritual of its own.

Bixa, I have eaten - and have made - good lasagne, but usually it is horrible stodge, whether the usually greasy meaty version or some vegetarian horrors (lasagne with tofu in lieu of cheese, mentioning this one for kerouac).

I haven't had a lot of the Asian dishes (alas, I HATE kimchi). I've had Dutch versions of some of the Indonesian and Malaysian dishes, and they seemed utterly delicious, but that was against the rather bland background of Dutch food.

I certainly don't want to be Eurocentric - but only a pastry as representative of French food and the worst tourist clichés as representative of Italian food strikes me as very odd. And is there nothing at all from Africa, very little from Latin America? Not even couscous or the exquisite Moroccan tagines made the list.
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« Reply #16 on Sept 11, 2011, 6:34am »		[Quote]
Do they even eat Fettucine Alfredo in Italy? I thought it was a N American invention. I remember it as being quite common in the 1970s in Toronto.

I wasn't impressed with this list either: tons of Asian food, which may or may not be good, but nothing European and only unhealthy US food: potato chips, warm brownie with ice cream (that's global?), hamburgers are German? no.
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« Reply #17 on Sept 11, 2011, 10:09am »		[Quote]
I think it is a bit of balderdash as well, but in a truly global authentic poll based on the preferences of common people, there would probably be just as many Asian dishes simply because Asians outnumber the people on the other continents by a landslide.

If voting were restricted to experts in gastronomy, there would probably be some considerable differences.
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« Reply #18 on Sept 11, 2011, 2:45pm »		[Quote]
I rate some of the best foods in the world are grilled on open fires! You can use wood, charcoal, whatever, but grilled out in the open gives the meat or vegetables a superb smokey taste!
I must be lucky - so many dishes cooked out in the open......
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« Reply #19 on Sept 11, 2011, 3:32pm »		[Quote]
I think Lagatta is right re the mutton. In South East Asia mutton is usually goat. It's the cheapest meat around, goats need little taking care of and eat everything. Sheep can't even stand the climate.
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« Reply #20 on Sept 11, 2011, 4:51pm »		[Quote]
So people lie all over the world about eating goat? What's the point?
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« Reply #21 on Sept 12, 2011, 6:10am »		[Quote]
I don't think they lie about it, it's just that they call it mutton. ;D
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« Reply #22 on Sept 12, 2011, 7:03am »		[Quote]
In all languages?
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« Reply #23 on Sept 12, 2011, 7:14am »		[Quote]
Galangal can be bought quite easily here either fresh from an Asian supermarket or dried slices packaged and sold anywhere that keeps a good range of dried herbs and spices. I would think you should be able to find it there kerouac. It's quite similar in looks to ginger.

I adore goat although it's not that common to eat it here. I think of it as a lower fat version of a cross between lamb and beef.

Recently I lost a supplier who was selling at the sunday markets. Shame since they were cheap and raised the goats just south of here themselves.
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« Reply #24 on Sept 22, 2011, 10:07am »		[Quote]
I am a bit confused about this list as some can be construed an ingredient such as maple syrup or lobster and some are dishes.

I think the list can only be biased by whoever compiles it.
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« Reply #25 on Sept 22, 2011, 7:34pm »		[Quote]
It's sort of like when somebody makes a list of the "major food groups" and you find that they are things like "pizza," "chocolate chip cookies," and "beer." Definitely an alternate universe but often useful for starting a discussion.
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Sept 12, 2011, 7:14am, mockchoc wrote:
Galangal can be bought quite easily here either fresh from an Asian supermarket or dried slices packaged and sold anywhere that keeps a good range of dried herbs and spices. I would think you should be able to find it there kerouac. It's quite similar in looks to ginger.


You were absolutely right, mockchoc -- my Chinese supermarket sells it fresh. It had just never captured my attention before.
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« Reply #27 on Sept 26, 2011, 7:02am »		[Quote]
I'm happy to know you have access to it if you decide to use it kerouac.
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Locally produced goat meat is on sale at 8.80kg/3.99lb at Supermarché PA, a small Greek supermarket that usually has quality merchandise. I guess requests for (stewing) recipes should go in the recipe section. I need something not as spicy as the Caribbean Curry Goat (which is not really terribly spicy) because an Argentine carnivorous friend doesn't like spicy at all. Mediterranean herbs, onion, garlic and even a bit of fresh ginger are fine. I believe I have a suitable Greek recipe somewhere.

They also have goat/lamb sausages, homemade. That sounds intriguing; I've never had sausages with goat meat, but it sounds good as much as I like lamb sausages, they can often be too fatty (the tiny Tuscan lamb sausages at Milano very close to my place in la Petite Italie are an exception). They come hot and mild - I'd opt for the mild as while I like le piquant, I'd really want to taste the flavour of the meats.

mich, while I find we can eat exceptionally well here in Montréal and in certain regions of Québec, I can't think of a lot of dishes I'd put on a list of the 50th best dishes in the world. Most of the "typical" foods here are a regional/rustic take on French country cooking, or of course foods from the Mediterranean basin reflecting migration patterns. Due to French colonisation and la francophonie, we have very good Vietnamese and (in much smaller numbers) Cambodian and Laotian, but Toronto and of course Vancouver outdo us in terms of most other (East, Southeast and South) Asian cuisine.

Vancouver has exceptional Asian seafood dishes because of the large population from East and South Asia, and some Southeast Asian countries, and the availability of stellar seafood. But I'd need someone from thereabouts to show me a specific "best food".

I can't see maple syrup as a "food". Perhaps a foodstuff. Certainly a precious ingredient. I remember a neighbourhood Lebanese bakery that made baklava etc with maple syrup as a variant on the usual sugar syrup or honey mixture - it was delicious - subtle, not cloyingly sweet. Perhaps for families inviting overseas relatives for something "Canadian"? That bakery has disappeared - it later became a butcher shop (first Lebanese, later Maghrebi) and is now the expansion of the very popular local Syrian restaurant/café Le Petit Alep.
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« Reply #29 on Oct 8, 2011, 10:10am »		[Quote]
I vote the potato as among the 50 best foods of the world. It's good even boiled, but near its peak when sliced, fried in olive oil, garlic and sprinkled with coarse salt. A properly enriched mess of mashed potatoes can be a wonder.
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