If you ask majority of Americans on when the last time they ate Mexican food, usually it is within the last week. Mexican foods have become very popular in the United States. The problem is that the Mexican foods in America are not the same as they are in Mexico. Americans have added super fat and super sized the meals. If you go down to Mexico, you may not even find the same dishes because the dishes were created in America. Authentic Mexican food is rich in fresh vegetables, protein, and nutritious vitamins and spices.
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Authentic Caribbean cuisine is truly an excellent representation of all the cultural influences the Caribbean Islands have experienced since Christopher Columbus’ landing in the late 1400’s. With a fine mixture of French Island and African recipes, Caribbean cuisine is widely prepared and enjoyed by people of all nationalities, in many areas of the United States and the world.
Caribbean food and culture was forever changed when the European traders brought African slaves into the region. The slaves ate mostly the scrap leftovers of the slave owners, so not unlike the slaves in the United States they had to make do with what they had. This was the birth of the more contemporary Caribbean Cuisine.
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Your travel to Indonesia would not be complete without having its traditional foods. Below are some of those foods you should not miss them when you come to that country.
Indonesia consists of many islands and many provinces. There are five big islands and more than thirty provinces altogether, and each provinces has its own unique traditional foods.
Jakarta, the capital city of the country, or as its original people called as Betawi, has Kerak Telor as its traditional food. This food can not be easy to find nowadays as Jakarta people like to flock to fast food restaurants and other modern foods which are scattered throughout the city. Kerak Telor would be easy to find on June and July when Jakarta celebrates its annyversary. The celebrations usually takes place at Kemayoran, and there will be many people selling Kerak Telor there. So, if you would like to try this Betawi traditional food, I would advise you to come to Kemayoran on June or July.
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Spain is well known for serving fine foods of all sorts. Many come to the country just to enjoy the fine delicacies available in Spain. Yet, the Spanish custom of eating known as tapas is still one of the best ways to partake in the rich cultural cuisine that is famous to the country of Spain. Tapa is a small sampling, usually served in snack form, which can be anything from fish to other forms of local varieties of foods. Tapas are not intended to be large portions, or meals by any stretch of the imagination, they are an absolutely inexpensive way to try a large variety of items in an economical way. May taverns and bars offer tapas throughout the day, and it is quite easy to bar hop and sample a number of them.
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