Gathering the best recipes of national dishes

[Mjx]

I'm still struggling to see any point to this exercise. Reducing a cuisine to one dish is ridiculous and of no benefit to anyone.

Also, the partial list you give clearly illustrates the impossibility of sticking remotely close to your own set out criteria.

But we're having such fun! Look at our little faces, glowing with delight!

I'd have to add the Italian national dish, coffee (espresso), accompanied by an intense discussion of what defines [insert name of dish], and whether the addition/omission of any given ingredient effectively turns it into another dish. inevitably served on a base of campanilismo.

[liuzhou]

But we're having such fun! Look at our little faces, glowing with delight!

Well, exactly.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the OP has chosen for Scotland, my place of origin.

Probably haggis, (a thing of great beauty), which is mainly eaten by brave tourists eating it for a bet. (By the way, should you find yourself in Edinburgh and see a man in a kilt there is a 99% chance he will be Canadian.)

Or is it the deep fried Mars Bar? I've never encountered one in Scotland but I don't go there often

Actually the nearest Scotland has to a national dish is a breakfast speciality, enjoyed by generations for millennia. An Embassy Regal and a cup of Nescafé with three sugars.

Edited August 12, 2013 by liuzhou (log)

[nickrey]

But we're having such fun! Look at our little faces, glowing with delight!

Well, exactly.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the OP has chosen for Scotland, my place of origin.

Probably haggis, (a thing of great beauty), which is mainly eaten by brave tourists eating it for a bet. (By the way, should you find yourself in Edinburgh and see a man in a kilt there is a 99% chance he will be Canadian.)

Or is it the deep fried Mars Bar? I've never encountered one in Scotland but I don't go there often

Actually the nearest Scotland has to a national dish is a breakfast speciality, enjoyed by generations for millennia. An Embassy Regal and a cup of Nescafé with three sugars.

Wouldn't you want neeps and tatties with your haggis?

[liuzhou]

Wouldn't you want neeps and tatties with your haggis?

Is there another way?

[Arey]

I am an American. I live in the US. I am old and have cooked most of my life. I don't think I have ever made macaroni and cheese. Not even modernist.

I am an American. I live in the US, have been cooking ever since I was old enough to flip a pancake (using Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix) and have made Macaroni and Cheese over the years, and finally got it the way I really like it. However, if I served it to a group of four people, one them would probably say "No, no, no. That's not how you make Macaroni and Cheese. This is the way I make it and everyone raves over it." One would start telling the first what wrong with his recipe ,another would say he hates macaroni cheese and can't even stand the sight of it and ,the fourth would probably say "Why go to all the trouble, when Kraft in the blue box beats all".

Edited to add that I really wouldn't think of Mac and Cheese as a national dish, much as I like it.

Edited August 12, 2013 by Arey (log)

[Ashen]

On Canada.- Kraft Dinnner has to be a serious contender.. With hotdogs for the gourmand palate

And fancy Dijon ketchups?

If I had a million dollars maybe.