Europeans have serious regional discrimination against each other.
But let's put aside political, religious and ethnic factors. In terms of food, Germans are called "chefs in hell" by people in other parts of Europe. As the name implies, the food here is really hard to swallow. Of course, I believe that the industrious and brave German people, only in the ancient agricultural civilization era, were not so colorful because they were located in the cold central Europe and civilized exchanges!
Have you noticed that there were many Michelin chefs from Germany in the future, and the most famous beer sausages in the world today are all labeled with German labels.
In short, Europeans think that the best place to eat is the Mediterranean basin, followed by France, and finally Northern Europe, where the core of molecular cooking-material cooking is in the ascendant. I think this has a lot to do with the geographical and historical environment. Greece and Rome are the origins of European civilization, so diet, an experienced human art, is easy to precipitate here. Today, in Europe, you will find that Italian food is the representative of high-end food, while French food is far from magical as we thought.
I like Greek, Italian and Spanish dishes very much! The biggest reason for this is that their light taste is very close to Guangdong where I live. The traditional diet in these places is like using olive oil, and then it is low in oil, salt and sugar, which is quite in line with modern health concepts. Some faint Italian black vinegar with a little sea rock, and the seafood with it is enough to make me happy.
Italians are very dissatisfied with the French, because the popularity of French red wine and French dinner is really very high today, but it seems to Italians that French people learn from them when they make red wine. The French word "menu" was brought by the Romans when they conquered Gaul, so there will be some imbalance in the bones.
However, by the time of Napoleon, French cuisine had indeed become a prominent style that all ethnic groups in Europe liked. In fact, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria and other places in central Europe were also great food countries. However, with the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, it is difficult for small countries to have the right to speak. For example, Belgians simply look down on French food, because their beer, sausage and chocolate are among the best in the world.
it should be the British who really let Europeans conquer the world. However, the British people's diet standard is universally recognized as terrible! The French, because of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, often make fun of it. In their view, the British really can't come up with anything decent except fish and chips.
Slavs in eastern Europe have been regarded as barbarians for a long time, and the rough diet is often used to make fun of them. However, with the rise of Russia, Russian food culture has also spread to some extent in ideological countries. Of course, all this is not as rapid as those sparsely populated countries in Northern Europe.
Small countries like Denmark, Sweden and Finland could not see their position on the food map at first, but in recent years, with their simple style and the blessing of molecular cuisine, restaurants like Norma have become one of the top restaurants in the world!
Of course, I have not studied the history of Europe so thoroughly. After all, this is a place known as the origin of modern human civilization. The diet of Europeans needs constant research and observation, which is also very helpful for us to make modern catering planning.