it occurs to me that we don't actually know much about european cuisine outside of italian, british, and greek
all we know about german food is bratwurst and sauerkraut, all we know about french food is that it's famous for being really pretentious, and we don't know anything about like, spanish or finnish or dutch or i dunno belarusian food
really it's like there's a few countries that are really famous for their cuisine
italy, mexico, india, china, japan, korea, thailand, greece, turkey, and then if you get a little more niche you might encounter jamaican, cuban, and other caribbean countries' cuisine
but that leaves out a lot of the world. what about brazilian food? or any of the various sub-saharan african countries? or central asia? i want to try food from other cultures and don't know the first thing about it
I don't know what you have near you, but it's definitely worth looking for local restaurants and grocery stores that'd carry stuff from foreign countries. The world of cuisine is *absolutely huge* and it's a great place to explore new flavors. If you can find something in a store that looks unfamiliar, there's always the Internet to look things up in. Cooking is a great way to try new stuff out.
@dodec yeah! we live in a college town so the more popular foreign cuisines (like chinese and mexican and indian and stuff) are pretty easy to get here, plus we just recently discovered there's been a really good greek place here that we didn't know about
but it'd be interesting to look for like. caribbean food or spanish food or something if we can find it. the less popular cuisines, you know?
We don't get thai or indian very much either, perhaps we should more often...
Thai and Indian are both good things to try. If I knew what kind of food you generally liked, I could steer you toward dishes to try in either of those. Do you like more meat or more vegetables? Sweet or spicy? Stuff like that.
@dodec Generally more meat, and I feel like our favorites strike a balance between sweet and spicy--we don't generally like hot sauces because they're so... purely spicy with no actual flavor to them
One problem that we run into a lot though is that we don't like onions or peppers or lettuce/cabbage... which seem to be incredibly common vegetables. don't mind the flavor, it's more a texture thing.