native cuisine
Regional traditional dishes
Native cuisine refers to the traditional foods and cooking practices originating from a particular place or culture.
The term often describes dishes prepared using local ingredients and ancestral methods: We sampled the native cuisine of Oaxaca.
It can also specifically mean the food traditions of indigenous peoples: The restaurant features native cuisine from tribal recipes.
- cassavaStarchy tropical root vegetable
- maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
- plantainsStarchy banana relatives
- root vegetablesEdible underground plant parts
- communal mealFood eaten collectively
sacred meal · wild rice · ancestral recipes · feast · harvest festival · cooking fire · clay pot · taro · smoking · salting · sun dried · pickling · curing · fermenting · old world · juniper berries · yams · pemmican
- local foodslocal favorite, local produce, local seafood, regional specialty, local honey
native cuisinefusion cuisine
Dishes blending culinary traditions
nouvelle cuisine · fast food · processed food · modern fusion · molecular gastronomy