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Peter Dy
 
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Default The seven major cuisines of the world?


"Scott T. Jensen" > wrote in message
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> Hypothetical situation: Your kitchen services a boarding school with
> children from around the world. The headmaster has told you to hire seven
> chefs and each specialize in one of the seven major cuisines of the world.
> Each chef runs the kitchen once a week and uses the rest of the week to
> prepare for next time. The idea is to give the vast majority of the
> students from all the different parts of the world a weekly taste of home

as
> well as expose them to other cuisines. Having said all that...
>
> What would be considered the seven cuisines these chefs would cover?
>
> My guess is:
> European (from Iceland to Russia to Italy)
> African
> Middle Eastern
> South Asia (India region)
> East Asia (from China to Japan to Singapore)
> Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand)
> American



These are major cuisines? Why not just collapse S. Asia, E. Asia, and the
Pacific into "Asia and the Pacific", then you'll have room for South
American and Antarctican.

Peter