Fresh. I love stuff made simply and quickly from fresh ingredients, lots of vegetables and minimal sauces.
Indian
Thai
Vietnamese
A guy at work who is a really good cook (from all I can tell by what he brings us at work) recently returned from a food “pilgrimage” to Italy. I asked him was the food all he had hoped for and he said, “By the end of the trip I was ready to scream at the waiters ‘something, anything, without fucking tomatoes’.”
Not relevant but it amused me. Although maybe our favorites are only our favorites because we **don’t **eat them every day.
Indian (South Indian if we need to specify).
… can I add Baby Back Ribs to Spanish? puppy eyes
Never tried puppy eyes before. Is it crunchy or squishy?
OK, I don’t mean to be a jerk, but I really had no idea what you meant.
I like French cuisine best, I think. What kind of French? Rustic, Nouveau, all of it I guess (don’t like snails much, though maybe I’ve never had them prepared properly).
I guess that would depend on how you cook them: boiled, broiled, roasted, deep-fried…
I’m the first (and probably the last) to say, Scandinavian. It has all my comfort foods. After that, salads. There are so many ways to do a salad, I could have a different one everyday for the rest of my life. Porkanna Omenaraaste, Finnish carrot apple salad, could be my breakfast everyday.
Another Tex-Mex fan. Tacos, burritos, tamales, oh yeah!
Indian
Italian. Really I could eat pizza every day, but there is such a good variety of stuff you can do with pasta/dough, garlic and sauces…and meats…even veggies. Mmmmm…
I’m totally not Italian by heritage, either. I don’t even know any “real Italian” families! Wish I did, I’d invite myself over for Sunday dinner.
I don’t know if there’s a category for it, but in my case cheese fries. I’d be happy to eat nothing but cheese fries, morning, noon, and night indefinitely–or at least until a) I got bored with it or b) my first bypass operation.
Mmmmm, lasagne. And my step-mother-in-law piles the plates so high. And insists we take home doggy bags.
Is “pizza” a cuisine? If not, then probably Mexican. (One gets tired of this Thai crap after a decade or two.)
“You said parsnips twice.”
“I like parsnips.”
Greek. I love all the garlic and lemon and mint.
Absolutely seconded. I was surprised no one mentioned it and then I saw the last reply, heh. But yeah, Greek all the way (and I’m not Greek). Olives, mint, garlic, dill, lemon, olive oil, feta, tomatoes, tzatziki, red onions, pita bread, eggplant dip… Mmm.
Closely followed by Italian. Can’t live without pasta dishes.
And then followed by Indian and Mexican. Love me some hot and spicy foods.
Chinese. I tell people that it’s my favorite food but they always underestimate how often I could eat it. If I had the money I’d be at the buffet every day.
And carne asada fries from a local place called Armando’s. It’s its own food group.
Those are my two favorite foods.
I don’t think you were being a jerk at all. Glad to clarify.
A lot of people are saying Italian. I love it myself, but the thing is there’s nothing better than good Italian food, and nothing worse than bad Italian. Dried out acidic tomato sauce and parm is puke-inducing to me. The antipasto from Boston’s Pappa-Razzi, OTOH, is some of the best food I’ve ever had.
Middle Eastern. Give me a good shawarma any day of the week. And the regions bordering the Middle East have fantastic cuisine as well – the Persians, the Greeks, the Turks. And speaking of Turks, is there anything better than the Donner kebab sandwiches you get at Turkish snack bars in Germany?