List of cuisines
A cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture or region. Each cuisine involves food preparation in a particular style, of food and drink of particular types, to produce individually consumed items or distinct meals. A cuisine is frequently named after the region or place where it originated. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. Religious food laws can also exercise a strong influence on such culinary practices.
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Regional and ethnic cuisines
Global cuisine is a cuisine that is practiced around the world. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions,[1] often associated with a specific region, country[2] or culture. To become a global cuisine, a local, regional or national cuisine must spread around the world with its food served worldwide.
Regional cuisine is based upon national, state or local regions.[3] Regional cuisines may vary based upon food availability and trade, varying climates, cooking traditions and practices, and cultural differences.[4] One noteworthy definition is based upon traditional cuisine: "A traditional cuisine is a coherent tradition of food preparation that rises from the daily lives and kitchens of a people over an extended period in a specific region of a country, or a specific country, and which, when localized, has notable distinctions from the cuisine of the country as a whole."[4]
African cuisine
Central African cuisine

East African cuisine
- Burundian cuisine
- Comorian cuisine
- Djiboutian cuisine
- Eritrean cuisine
- Ethiopian cuisine
- Ethiopian Jewish cuisine
- Kenyan cuisine
- Maasai cuisine
- Malagasy cuisine
- Malawian cuisine
- Mauritian cuisine
- Mozambican cuisine
- Rwandan cuisine
- Seychellois cuisine
- Somali cuisine
- Sudanese cuisine
- South Sudanese cuisine
- Tanzanian cuisine
- Ugandan cuisine
- Zambian cuisine
- Zimbabwean cuisine
North African cuisine
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Southern African cuisine
West African cuisine

- Benin cuisine
- Burkinabé cuisine
- Cape Verdean cuisine
- Gambian cuisine
- Ghanaian cuisine
- Guinean cuisine
- Guinea-Bissauan cuisine
- Ivorian cuisine
- Liberian cuisine
- Malian cuisine
- Mauritanian cuisine
- Niger cuisine
- Nigerian cuisine
- Saint Helenian cuisine
- Senegalese cuisine
- Sierra Leone cuisine
- Togolese cuisine
Cuisine of the Americas
North American cuisine
American cuisine

- Midwestern American cuisine
- Cuisine of Chicago
- Cuisine of North Dakota
- Cuisine of Omaha
- Cuisine of St. Louis
- Cuisine of Wisconsin
- Minnesotan cuisine
- Iron Range cuisine
- Northeastern American cuisines
- Cuisine of New England
- Cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic United States
- Cuisine of Baltimore
- Cuisine of New Jersey
- Cuisine of New York City
- Cuisine of the Pennsylvania Dutch
- Cuisine of Philadelphia
- Cuisine of Pittsburgh
- Southern American cuisine
- Southwestern American cuisine
- Western American cuisine
- Fusion cuisine
- American Jewish cuisine
- Cajun cuisine
- Chinese American cuisine
- Filipino-American cuisine
- Floribbean cuisine
- German-American cuisine
- Greek-American cuisine
- Indian-American cuisine
- Italian-American cuisine
- Japanese-American cuisine
- Korean-American cuisine
- Mexican-American cuisine
- Cali-Mex cuisine
- New Mexican cuisine
- Tex-Mex cuisine
- Cuisine of the Pennsylvania Dutch
- Thai-American cuisine
- Vietnamese-American cuisine
- New American cuisine
Central American cuisine
- Belizean cuisine
- Costa Rican cuisine
- Mexican cuisine
- Cuisine of Chiapas
- Cuisine of Mexico City
- Oaxacan cuisine
- Cuisine of Veracruz
- Mexican-American cuisine
- Cali-Mex cuisine
- New Mexican cuisine
- Tex-Mex cuisine
- Salvadoran cuisine
- Guatemalan cuisine
- Honduran cuisine
- Nicaraguan cuisine
- Panamanian cuisine
South American cuisine

- Argentinian cuisine
- Bolivian cuisine
- Brazilian cuisine
- Chilean cuisine
- Colombian cuisine
- Ecuadorian cuisine
- French Guianan cuisine
- Guyanese cuisine
- Paraguayan cuisine
- Cuisine of Asunción
- Peruvian cuisine
- Surinamese cuisine
- Uruguayan cuisine
- Cuisine of Montevideo
- Venezuelan cuisine
Caribbean cuisine

- Anguillan cuisine
- Antigua and Barbuda cuisine
- Aruban cuisine
- Bahamian cuisine
- Barbadian cuisine
- Belizean cuisine
- British Virgin Islands cuisine
- Cayman Islands cuisine
- Caribbean Chinese cuisine
- Cuban cuisine
- Curaçao cuisine
- Dominica cuisine
- Dominican Republic cuisine
- Floribbean cuisine
- French Guianan cuisine
- Grenadian cuisine
- Guyanese cuisine
- Haitian cuisine
- Jamaican cuisine
- Martinican cuisine
- Montserrat cuisine
- Puerto Rican cuisine
- St. Kitts and Nevis cuisine
- Saint Lucian cuisine
- Surinamese cuisine
- Trinidad and Tobago cuisine
- Turks and Caicos cuisine
- US Virgin Islands cuisine
Asian cuisine
Central Asian cuisine
- Bukharan Jewish cuisine
- Kazakh cuisine
- Koryo-saram cuisine
- Kyrgyz cuisine
- Tajik cuisine
- Turkmen cuisine
- Uzbek cuisine
East Asian cuisine
- Japanese cuisine
- Ainu cuisine
- Kaiseki
- Okinawan cuisine
- Japanese regional cuisine
- Nagoya cuisine
- Japanese fusion food
- Japanese-American cuisine
- Japanese Chinese cuisine
- Shippoku
- Hawaiian cuisine
- Itameshi
- Yoshoku
- Korean cuisine
- Korean Chinese cuisine
- Korean regional cuisine
- Korean royal court cuisine
- Korean temple cuisine
- Koryo-saram cuisine
- North Korean cuisine
- Sakhalin Korean cuisine
- South Korean cuisine
- Korean-Mexican fusion
- Mongolian cuisine
- Taiwanese cuisine
Chinese cuisine


- Northern Chinese Cuisine
- Beijing cuisine
- Chinese aristocrat cuisine
- Chinese imperial cuisine
- Hebei cuisine
- Henan cuisine
- Northeastern Chinese cuisine
- Heilongjiang cuisine
- Jilin cuisine
- Liaoning cuisine
- Manchu cuisine
- Shandong cuisine
- Shanxi cuisine
- Tianjin cuisine
- Xuzhou cuisine
- Beijing cuisine
- Central Chinese Cuisine
- Anhui cuisine
- Jiangsu cuisine
- Shanghai cuisine
- Haipai cuisine
- Zhejiang cuisine
- Hangbang cuisine
- North Western Chinese Cuisine
- Gansu cuisine
- Ningxia cuisine
- Qinghai cuisine
- Shaanxi cuisine
- South Western Chinese Cuisine
- Guilin cuisine
- Guizhou cuisine
- Hubei cuisine
- Hunan cuisine
- Jiangxi cuisine
- Sichuan cuisine
- Tujia cuisine
- Yunnan cuisine
- Southern Chinese Cuisine
- Cantonese cuisine
- Guangxi cuisine
- Hong Kong cuisine
- Macanese cuisine
- Hakka cuisine
- Min cuisine
- Fuzhou cuisine
- Hainan cuisine
- Minnan cuisine
- Putian (Henghwa) cuisine
- Chaoshan (Teochew) cuisine
- Ou cuisine
- Taiwan cuisine
- Cantonese cuisine
- Chinese minority cuisines
- Hlai cuisine
- Miao cuisine
- Hmong cuisine
- Mongolian cuisine
- Tibetan cuisine
- Xinjiang (Uyghur) cuisine
- Zhuang cusine
- Yao cuisine
- Yi cuisine
- Chinese religious cuisines
- Overseas Chinese cuisine
- American Chinese cuisine
- Australian Chinese cuisine
- British Chinese cuisine
- Burmese Chinese cuisine
- Cambodian Chinese cuisine
- Canadian Chinese cuisine
- Caribbean Chinese cuisine
- Filipino Chinese cuisine
- French Chinese cuisine
- Indian Chinese cuisine
- Indonesian Chinese cuisine
- Japanese Chinese cuisine
- Shippoku
- Latin American Chinese cuisine
- Cuban Chinese cuisine
- Mexican Chinese cuisine
- Peruvian Chinese cuisine
- Puerto Rican Chinese cuisine
- Korean Chinese cuisine
- Malaysian Chinese cuisine
- Mauritian Chinese cuisine
- New Zealand Chinese cuisine
- Pakistani Chinese cuisine
- Peranakan cuisine
- Singaporean Chinese cuisine
- Thai Chinese cuisine
- Vietnamese Chinese cuisine
North Asian cuisine

- Russian cuisine
- Buryat cuisine
- Chukchi cuisine
- Cuisine of Commander Islands
- Sakha cuisine
- Sakhalin Korean cuisine
- Yamal cuisine
- Yup'ik cuisine
South Asian cuisine
Indian cuisine

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- West Indian cuisine
- North Indian cuisine
- South Indian cuisine
- Karnataka cuisine
- Dakshina Karnataka cuisine
- Kodava cuisine
- Mangalurean cuisine
- Mangalurean Catholic cuisine
- Navyath Muslim cuisine
- Udupi cuisine
- Uttara Karnataka cuisine
- Kerala cuisine
- Tamil cuisine
- Telugu cuisine
- Karnataka cuisine
- North East Indian cuisine
- Assamese cuisine
- Manipuri cuisine
- Mizo cuisine
- Naga cuisine
- Sikkimese cuisine
- Tripuri cuisine
- East Indian cuisine
- Other Indian cuisine
- Anglo-Indian cuisine
- Indo Caribbean food
- Indian Chinese cuisine
- Indian fast food
- Indo-Fijian food
- Indo-South African food
- Jain cuisine
- Malaysian Indian cuisine
Pakistani cuisine

- Balochi cuisine
- Hazara cuisine
- Kashmiri cuisine
- Mughlai cuisine
- Muhajir cuisine
- Punjabi cuisine
- Lahori cuisine
- Saraiki cuisine
- Pashtun cuisine
- Sindhi cuisine
Mainland Southeast Asian cuisine
- Burmese cuisine
- Cambodian cuisine
- Cham cuisine
- Hmong cuisine
- Kachin cuisine
- Karen cuisine
- Manipuri cuisine
- Mizo cuisine
- Mon cuisine
- Naga cuisine
- Thai cuisine
- Lanna cuisine
- Lao cuisine
- Shan cuisine
- Southern Thai cuisine
- Thai-Chinese cuisine
- Tripuri cuisine
- Vietnamese cuisine
- Wa cuisine
Maritime Southeast Asian cuisine
- Bruneian cuisine
- Christmas Island cuisine
- East Timor cuisine
- Filipino cuisine
- Filipino-American cuisine
- Filipino Chinese cuisine
- Ilocano cuisine
- Kapampangan cuisine
- Mindanao cuisine
- Tagalog cuisine
- Visayan cuisine
- Malaysian cuisine
- Singaporean cuisine
Indonesian cuisine

- Acehnese cuisine
- Balinese cuisine
- Banjar cuisine
- Batak cuisine
- Indo cuisine
- Indonesian Arab cuisine
- Indonesian Chinese cuisine
- Indonesian Indian cuisine
- Javanese cuisine
- Betawi cuisine
- Madurese cuisine
- Sundanese cuisine
- Makassar cuisine
- Malay cuisine
- Manado cuisine
- Padang food
- Palembang cuisine
- Peranakan cuisine
West Asian cuisine

- Armenian cuisine
- Eastern Arabian cuisine
- Kurdish cuisine
- Levantine cuisine
- Assyrian cuisine
- Caucasian cuisine
- Azerbaijani cuisine
- Chechen cuisine
- Circassian cuisine
- Dagestani cuisine
- Georgian cuisine
- Ossetian cuisine
- Iranian cuisine
- Balochi cuisine
- Caspian cuisine
- Sephardic Jewish cuisine
- Turkish cuisine
- Pontic Greek cuisine
European cuisine
Central European cuisine
German cuisine
- German-American cuisine
- Austrian cuisine
- Baden cuisine
- Bavarian cuisine
- Brandenburg cuisine
- Franconian cuisine
- Hamburg cuisine
- Hessian cuisine
- Liechtensteiner cuisine
- Lower Saxon cuisine
- Mecklenburg cuisine
- Palatine cuisine
- Pomeranian cuisine
- Rhenish-Hessian cuisine
- Saxon cuisine
- Schleswig-Holstein cuisine
- Silesian cuisine
- Swabian cuisine
- Swiss cuisine
- Thuringian cuisine
Eastern European cuisine

- Belarusian cuisine
- Cossack cuisine
- Russian cuisine
- Bashkir cuisine
- Chechen cuisine
- Circassian cuisine
- Komi cuisine
- Mordovian cuisine
- Tatar cuisine
- Udmurt cuisine
- Ukrainian cuisine
- Crimean Tatar cuisine
- Odesite cuisine
Northern European cuisine
- Baltic cuisines
- Estonian cuisine
- Latvian cuisine
- Lithuanian cuisine
- Livonian cuisine
- Nordic cuisines
South Eastern European cuisine
- Balkan cuisine
- Albanian cuisine
- Aromanian cuisine
- Bosnian cuisine
- Bulgarian cuisine
- Croatian cuisine
- Gagauz cuisine
- Romani cuisine
- Romanian cuisine
- Moldovan cuisine
- Transylvanian Saxon cuisine
Southern European cuisine


- Catalan cuisine
- Gibraltarian cuisine
- Greek cuisine
- Macedonian cuisine (Greek)
- Cretan cuisine
- Cypriot cuisine
- Cuisine of the Ionian Islands
- Epirotic cuisine
- Pontic Greek cuisine
- Asia Minor Greek cuisine
- Italian cuisine
- Abruzzese and Molisan cuisine
- Italian-American cuisine
- Arbëreshë cuisine
- Basilicatan (Lucanian) cuisine
- Calabrian cuisine
- Corsican cuisine
- Lazian or Roman
- Ligurian cuisine
- Lombard cuisine
- Mantuan cuisine
- Neapolitan cuisine
- Pugliese cuisine
- Sammarinese cuisine
- Sardinian cuisine
- Sicilian cuisine
- Tuscan cuisine
- Venetian cuisine
- Maltese cuisine
- Monégasque cuisine
- Occitan cuisine
- Portuguese cuisine
- Spanish cuisine
- Andalusian cuisine
- Asturian cuisine
- Aragonese cuisine
- Balearic cuisine
- Canarian cuisine
- Cantabrian cuisine
- Castilian-Leonese cuisine
- Castilian-Manchego cuisine
- Extremaduran cuisine
- Galician cuisine
- Leonese cuisine
- Madrid cuisine
- Minorcan cuisine
- Valencian cuisine
- Sephardic Jewish cuisine
Western European cuisine

- Basque cuisine
- Belgian cuisine
- Dutch cuisine
- Frisian cuisine
- Limburgian cuisine
- French cuisine
- Luxembourgian cuisine
British Isles cuisine
- Cuisines of the Islands of the North Atlantic (IONA)
- British cuisine
- Anglo-Indian cuisine
- British Chinese cuisine
- Channel Islands cuisine
- English cuisine
- Cornish cuisine
- Devonian cuisine
- Dorset cuisine
- Northern Irish cuisine
- Scottish cuisine
- Welsh cuisine
- Cuisine of Carmarthenshire
- Cuisine of Ceredigion
- Cuisine of Gower
- Cuisine of Monmouthshire
- Cuisine of Pembrokeshire
- Irish cuisine
- British cuisine
Oceanic cuisine

- Australasian cuisine
- Australian cuisine
- Australian Chinese cuisine
- Bush tucker
- Tasmanian cuisine
- New Zealand cuisine
- New Zealand Chinese cuisine
- Australian cuisine
- Melanesian cuisine
- Bougainville cuisine
- Fijian cuisine
- New Caledonian cuisine
- Papua New Guinean cuisine
- Solomon Islands cuisine
- Vanuatuan cuisine
- Micronesian cuisine
- Kiribati cuisine
- Mariana Islands cuisine
- Marshallese cuisine
- Nauruan cuisine
- Palauan cuisine
- Polynesian cuisine
- Cook Islands cuisine
- Hawaiian cuisine
- Niuean cuisine
- Pascuense (Easter Island) cuisine
- Pitcairn Islands cuisine
- Samoan cuisine
- Tahitian cuisine
- Tongan cuisine
- Tuvaluan cuisine
- Wallis and Futuna cuisine
Cuisine Styles

- Fast food
- Fusion cuisine
- Haute cuisine
- Molecular gastronomy
- Nouvelle cuisine
- Vegan cuisine
- Vegetarian cuisine
- Indian vegetarian cuisine
- Street food
Religious cuisines
- Buddhist cuisine
- Chinese religious cuisines
- Christian diet
- Goan Catholic cuisine
- Mangalorean Catholic cuisine
- Mennonite cuisine
- Hindu diet
- Islamic diet
- Jain diet
- Jewish cuisine
- American Jewish cuisine
- Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine
- Bukharan Jewish cuisine
- Ethiopian Jewish cuisine
- Mizrahi Jewish cuisine
- Sephardic Jewish cuisine
- Syrian Jewish cuisine
- Sikh diet
Historical cuisines
- Ancient Egyptian cuisine
- Ancient Greek cuisine
- Ancient Israelite cuisine
- Ancient Roman cuisine
- Aztec cuisine
- Byzantine cuisine
- Early modern European cuisine
- Historical Chinese cuisine
- Historical Indian cuisine
- Inca cuisine
- Maya cuisine
- Medieval cuisine
- Ottoman cuisine
- Peasant foods
- Soviet cuisine
- Thirteen Colonies cuisine
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- "Cuisine (definition)". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- "Region." (Definition). Merriam-Webster. Accessed June 2011.
- "The American Food Revolutions: Cuisines in America." Eldrbarry.net. Accessed June 2011.