William George Ferguson schrieb:
> 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.
You are way oversimplifying the issue, especially because "nation" is
defined differently in each, ahem, nation.
mawa
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