[babalu87]

Thought occured to me

Isnt all cooking Ethnic?

[beerocd]

Isnt all cooking Ethnic?

Hamburgers, hotdogs, and pork steaks on the grill and a cooler full of bud light.  Name that ethnicity.....

[bluesman]

Ethnic Group - An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed. This shared heritage may be based upon putative common ancestry, history, kinship, religion, language, shared territory, nationality or physical appearance. Members of an ethnic group are conscious of belonging to an ethnic group; moreover ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness.

as per Wikipedia.

[richardt]

Isnt all cooking Ethnic?

Hamburgers, hotdogs, and pork steaks on the grill and a cooler full of bud light.  Name that ethnicity.....

American... just like baseball, grandma, and apple pie.  But I would swap out the contents of the cooler for something better

[nicneufeld]

Vegan dishes by a brand called "Tasty Bite" and imported from India.

I'd be careful, particularly if serving to a practicing vegan, with Indian food unless very explicitly stated as vegan.  There are a great number of Indian vegetarians of course, but veganism isn't quite so prominent; the use of ghee in cooking is very common and one of those dishes marked as vegetarian (properly, granted) was a paneer dish which uses cheese.  So those dishes could very easily have ghee in them as a cooking oil, which I gather isn't terribly kosher for your veganites.

I really recommend Julie Sahni's book for learning processes (more than simple recipes) for Indian cooking, but hers is kind of old school, and because naan is more a commercially baked bread in india, only includes recipes for all the various unleavened breads more commonly made at home in India.

[beerocd]

American... just like baseball, grandma, and apple pie. 

You can't eat the baseball 

American just doesn't strike me as an ethnicity. Ask someone what their ethnicity is and you get an answer like 50 percent German and 25 Polish and 25 Chinese on my mother's side.   I understand that's ethnic heritage, but it's linked.

Start an American cooking thread... what the heck would go in there? (I'd guess sloppy slathered bbq ribs)

[euge]

Nic thanks for the advice. These little pouches will give me an idea of what to expect when I try the recipes. Channa Masala looks easy and chickpeas are my favorite bean anyway. I'd like to do bread and forgo rice.

American just doesn't strike me as an ethnicity. Ask someone what their ethnicity is and you get an answer like 50 percent German and 25 Polish and 25 Chinese on my mother's side. Smiley  I understand that's ethnic heritage, but it's linked.

Start an American cooking thread... what the heck would go in there? (I'd guess sloppy slathered bbq ribs)

Haha how about Chickd steak with cream gravy? Meatloaf or Sloppy Joe's?!

[nicneufeld]

American food is generally a natural version of a sort of "fusion" cuisine from all the old world cuisines.  Even chicken fried steak with gravy, probably originated in areas thick with central European and German immigrants who took the local beef and made schnitzel out of it!  Almost any typically American food has a discernible lineage from immigrant nations.  Maybe not succotash and pinole! 

[capozzoli]

When I think ethnic I mean the cooking of our immigrant ancestors. Recipes in their more pure form,how they were originally made.Ya know, authentic.

Some of these dishes, pazole for example have been made the same way for a thousand years, maybe more.

[nicneufeld]

Some of these dishes, pazole for example have been made the same way for a thousand years, maybe more.

Not quite the same......

According to research by the National Institute of Anthropology and History and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in these special occasions, the meat used in the pozole was human. [4] After the prisoners were killed by having their hearts torn out in a ritual sacrifice, the rest of the body was chopped and cooked with corn. The meal was shared among the whole community as an act of religious communion. After the conquest, when cannibalism was banned, pork became the staple meat, as it "tasted very similar", according to a Spanish priest.[5]

[richardt]

I love cooking on the grill.

Today I saw a quote from http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/5-tricks-to-grill-your-way-to-better-health-1464885/

"Marinate meats. Marinating can reduce HCA formation by as much as 92 to 99 percent, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR). One study in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry showed that marinating red meat in beer or wine for two hours significantly reduced HCAs. Scientists believe the antioxidants in these marinades block HCAs from forming."

Yet one more reason why beer is good!

[babalu87]

Isnt all cooking Ethnic?

Hamburgers, hotdogs, and pork steaks on the grill and a cooler full of bud light.  Name that ethnicity.....

Hot dogs = German

Hamburgers = German

Pork steaks................. I'd bet most ehtnicities eat that.

[beerocd]

the meat used in the pozole was human.

Meat is meat, it's how well you cook it that matters! 

[beerocd]

Hot dogs = German

Hamburgers = German

Pork steaks................. I'd bet most ehtnicities eat that.

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So your answer is German, clinched by the fact there is a cooler full of lager beer from a company founded by a German Immigrant. I was going for "American"    

[capozzoli]

MMM long pork pazole....nice.

I had an "American" pizza in Germany. It had corn on it.

Pork sausages on a bun. Sausages have been around a long time. Maybe the Germans invented the frankfurter and the wiener but the "Hot Dog" as we know it is American. Just ask someone from Chicago.

Germany, come on man, they dont have yellow mustard and they dont have neon green relish, they dont even have baseball !