Peruvian chicken is awesome beyond words. Not sure how popular it is outside the DC area, but it’s pretty popular there. I just grilled some here in Korea, and everybody loved it. Soy sauce, garlic, cumin, olive oil and paprika for the marinade and grill it on a covered grill.
Although I voted for Indian, I’ve been to a Peruvian restaurant here in San Francisco several times and it is truly excellent. I think I could eat Peruvian for a year too.
I found that here.
I don’t know if I’m ready to sign up for an all-Peruvian year, but I’ll definitely look for a Peruvian restaurant. DC, you say? Has there been an influx of Peruvians in the last 15 years?
I voted Italian, but I’m guessing that most of what I have that is Italian isn’t really very Italian.
Even though most of what I eat now is protein-based and not Italian, I still have to say that is what I’d be most happy with.
Make mine pizza!
You’re one of those people. Except I think of you as some kind of alien species. I used to live with someone like you. I’ll never forget how fascinated he was by my ecstasy upon consuming lobster ravioli. He’d never even known someone who had the appreciation of food that I had, and I’d never known one with his degree of indifference.
I knew we were from different planets when he told me, after trying a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream sundae, that Ben & Jerry’s could learn a lot from McDonalds about how to make an ice cream sundae. :eek: (And I’m not even a B&J fan, really, more of a Haagen Dazs girl - but McDonalds??!?!)
I picked Americann because I loves me a good cheeseeburger.
Oh man! I had a cheeseburger in Cambodia and it was disgusting. So American food is off my list*.
- Unless all other food, like Chinese for example, can be added to “American” because of its long history in the States. Then I might choose American, because it includes everything.
I picked American because a lot of what we call "Mexican, “Chinese,” “Italian,” etc. is really American anyway.
Before I saw the choices, I was going to say beans. But I see you mean ethnic. Whatever ethnic makes falafels and hummus.
Arab.
And Israeli.
Choose your side of The Conflict… 
I’m going to go with this too; and just call it “Middle Eastern” in order to avoid specifying my (blatantly obvious from my location, but oh well…:D) side
Which one would I love to eat for a year: Italian.
Which one would probably leave me alive after a year: Chinese.
(Can I tweak that Chinese a little with Thai to hot it up a little? The hottest Szechuan I’ve ever had didn’t hold a candle to the Thai for pure capsaicinic vulcanism, and I like it hot–but with a Chinese ingredient/flavor base.)
I’ve had Sichuan as hot as any Thai I’ve had, but even spicier (at least in my experience) has been the food from Hunan. You can certainly find Chinese cuisine as hot as you like it.
Crap…I chose Chinese before remembering how much I love dairy products. >.<
I like both kinds of food, Southern and Cajun.
That covers pretty much any animal that’s remotely edible, cooked any way imaginable, plus assorted veggies, rice, gravy, desserts, grits, biscuits, cornbread, sweet tea, beer, and bourbon.
Aw, dude! Cajun food reeks! It’s what happens when decent, God-fearing Southern AME cooks are exposed to the Catholic French.
While the idea of forgoing any of those options for a whole year is pretty distressing, I’m sure I could do it with Chinese food. As Seinfeld once noted, Chinese food is eaten pretty much every day year round by billions of Chinese people, so the worldwide vote’s already in 
In addition to that wisdom, I chose it if only because the country is so large that there’s going to be tons more variety in it than otherwise, and it’s food I’m familiar with. And it all comes down to that most important meal of the day, breakfast.
I’m Chinese-American and grew up eating pretty traditionally at home, at least on weekends. (I checked Wikipedia on typical Chinese breakfasts and I’ve had everything listed there, and like it.) Come to think of it, that’s probably cheating for this poll, but whatever. But while I am also familiar with a fairly wide range of the other cuisines listed by region - Indian, Italian and French, for instance - that’s only the dinner menu for the most part. I have no idea what an Indian breakfast would be like, and my idea of a French or Italian breakfast (based on week-long stints in Europe) is the “Continental breakfast” consisting basically of pastry and coffee, which I would grow to loathe very quickly (I’m not a big pastry enthusiast in any case, and I eat breakfast every day).
Not really, although Peruvian restaurants have been a DC mainstay for at least the past 20 years. There has been an influx of Salvadoreans and Hondurans, and they love the stuff as much as I do. Pollo Rico in Arlington is a personal favorite, and (Guatamalan) Pollo Campero runs a close second. Campero has franchises in Herndon, Falls Church and 14th Street NW. Probably more now.