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16. Answer: Are you interested in cooking? What can you cook?

Read the text about various cuisines. Read the ingredients of the given dishes on the
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menu on page 106. Then, guess and classify their cuisine.
CUISINES
A cuisine is a style of cooking. It is characterized

by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes. A
cuisine is influenced by local ingredients, regional
food preparation traditions and religious food laws.
Delicious food is made all over the world and every
region has its own characteristics. It is impossible
to objectively decide which cuisine is the most
delicious. The best cuisines of the world have different
characteristics.

Italian: Home of pasta and the pizza. Italian
food is a simple dish with only a few ingredients.
Tomatoes and basil, olive oil and cheese are typical
Italian products in Italian food.

Indian: Dishes are based on rice and often
vegetarian or with chicken and seafood. Spices like
coriander, ginger, cumin, saffron, chili flavour these
dishes.

Thai: Chili is widely used in stir-fried rice and
noodle dishes with lots of vegetables, coconut, basil,
lemon grass, tofu, spices and curry-sauces.
Mexican: Chicken, tortillas, corn, rice and beans

are the basics of Mexican food. You can also have
sweet potatoes, peanuts, avocados, tomatoes, chili,
garlic, cinnamon and onions in Mexican dishes.
Turkish: Turkish cuisine is both healthy and
delicious. All vegetables are cooked in an extremely
delicious way. Kebabs are the most popular dishes.
Meat is cooked directly on fire.

English: Typical English food consists of fish and
chips, a full English breakfast, a Sunday roast, pies and
stews. English food is much simpler than the other
cuisines.
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