ethnic cuisines
Heritage-based cooking traditions
Ethnic cuisines are cooking traditions associated with particular national, regional, or cultural groups.
The term typically appears in contexts where food is categorized by origin: The food court offers several ethnic cuisines.
In American usage, "ethnic" often implicitly means non-Western or non-mainstream—Italian and French cooking may escape the label while Thai and Ethiopian don't.
The phrase can carry a mildly exoticizing tone, treating certain food traditions as marked or foreign.
- ChineseOf that Asian nation
- EthiopianFrom Africa's oldest nation
- IndianPerson from either continent
- PeruvianOf a South American nation
- spicesAromatic food flavorings
spice blend · street food · food truck · hole in the wall · night market · French · fusion restaurant · melting pot · Tex-Mex · Italian · Japanese · rice bowl · Lebanese · communal meals · noodles · family traditions · family recipe · fermentation
- culinary educationculinary school, culinary schools, cooking class, cooking classes, culinary degree
- vegetable historyheirloom varieties, ancient farming, plant cultivation, traditional agriculture, root crops
ethnic cuisinesfast food
Speedy prepared meals
processed food · junk food · convenience food · TV dinners · microwave meals