On Thu, 01 May 2008 13:10:29 -0700, William George Ferguson
<wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>The culinary sophistication that gave rise to the differentiation into
>>national cuisines doesn't begin to gain traction until the 1600's.
>
>Or to put it another way, national cuisines had to wait until there were
>nations (Spain, as a nation, dates from 1492, Germany, as a nation, dates
>from 1871 (almost a hundred years younger than the U.S.). Italy, as a
>unified nation, also dates from the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870s.
>France, as a discrete nation, is probably the oldest of the European
>nations, dating from around 987, when it broke from the Carolingian
empire.
On the other hand, what Westerners call Indian food makes about as
much sense as European food. Just because something is a nation
doesn't mean it has a unified cuisine.
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