Ethnic/International Cuisines
A Cultural Melting Pot -- A complex and dynamic part of the restaurant industry, ethnic restaurants often present consumers with their first impression of a particular culture's food. The National Restaurant Association's Ethnic Cuisines I - an analysis of the Association's second nationwide survey asking U.S. consumers about their ethnic food experiences - reveals which ethnic foods have become mainstream and which are gaining in popularity.
Franchising: Ethnic Cuisines Get The Chain Treatment -- NEW YORK - Food franchisees have been blamed for the blanding of the American palate, as burger-centric restaurant chains swept across the landscape and displaced local varieties. But ethnic cuisines can be franchised, too--as is obvious to any mall shopper who ventures into the food court to be confronted by a bewildering variety of fast-food choices.
Spanish Food: The Perfect Paella -- Looking for a traditional Spanish recipe? Without doubt, the best-known is going to be the prodigious paella ... that tasty, adaptable, gregarious dish famed throughout Spain and the World.
**Article includes recipe for Paella Valenciana.
Spanish Food: The Tasty Tortilla -- It certainly is a poor man or woman who cannot find a few eggs, a couple of potatoes and an onion in their store cupboard! The ever-practical Spaniard realized this and thus created their marvellous "tortilla" - an easy-to-make dish that could be savoured by rich and poor alike.
**Article includes recipe for Tortilla (Spanish Omelet).
Spanish Food: How to Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup -- Traditional gazpacho originates from romantic Andalucia - that large, exotic southerly region of Spain which is home to such extensive Arabic influence. The chilled, raw soup was originally made by pounding bread and garlic with tomatoes, cucumber and peppers but, nowadays, your electric blender renders this effortless!
Spanish Food: How To Prepare Boquerones -- Whilst on your travels in Spain and pausing to take a breath from site-seeing, you have surely experimented with "tapas" at a welcoming bar. If this is the case, it is more than likely that you have come across the small, tasty filleted fish, preserved in olive oil, sliced garlic and chopped parsley, and highly popular throughout Spain.
German Cuisine: It's More than Suds and Sauerkraut -- If you are planning a trip to Germany, your taste buds are in for a world-class treat. Germany offers an exciting array of absolutely delicious foods. But, it is easy to be intimidated by the language and wind up eating just the familiar food that's available in your hotel or at chain restaurants. You can avoid this by following the example of two soldiers.
**Article includes recipes for Wiener Schnitzel (Breaded Veal) and Rotkraut (Red Cabbage).
Sicily's Great Eggplant-Tomato Stew -- I ran into a friend yesterday, who tells me that he should be harvesting eggplants from his garden any day now. Of course, this got me thinking about Caponata, the famous Sicilian eggplant and tomato stew.
**Article includes recipe for Caponata.
How to Make a Delicious German Crumble Cake in 4 Simple Steps -- In high school, learning a new recipe (especially dessert recipes) was always my favorite part of a foreign language and culture class. One day during German in my sophomore year, I teamed up with two other classmates to make German Crumble Cake from a magazine. It was quite good, if I do say so myself. Seven years later, it continues to be one of my favorite desserts to bake.
**Article includes recipe for German Crumble Cake.
Going Halfway Around the World: How to Make German Cookies -- I absolutely loved experimenting with foreign recipes, especially dessert recipes, when I was in high school. One of my favorite ones to make is German Cookies. I first learned of it after I'd tried a recipe for German Crumble Cake.
**Article includes recipe for German Butter Cookies.
