Carolina Martyn

Dec 14, 2021

Food Around The World

Every foodie loves the prospect of eating the traditional food around the world, trying a new flavor on for size for the first time or finally getting to savor that uniquely traditional dish you’ve been hearing about. 

It’s our favorite thing to do and the genuine pleasure of culinary travel — traveling to the and letting your palate guide the way.

What’s equally fun with food travel is when you get to the point where you have some culinary experience — where patterns begin to emerge and you take note of similarities among ingredients, dishes, cultural expressions, cooking techniques, geography, and other influencing factors.

Little by little, the more we eat our way around the world, the better our understanding of the world becomes. 

And yet…the more those food stories become global and bound together, the more regionally defined they are….once again leading us to feel like first time foodies all over again — a pleasant conundrum. 

Thankfully there’s always what lies ahead… a new food experience to enjoy, another dish to be devoured. So let’s eat the world, my culinary friends, in 50 famous and traditional dishes, starting in the good old US of A!

Texas is known for its excellent food across the board, but among all the to try, none is more iconic than barbecue. Texas barbecue originated in the mid-nineteenth century,first-tim when German and Czech immigrants brought their traditions of smoking meat to the Lone Star State.

Mix cultural traditions with plentiful livestock and a booming cattle business, and Texas barbecue quickly exploded.

While there are many styles of Texas barbecue, what most non-Texans think of as the iconic “Texas” style belongs to Central Texas, where it’s traditional to smoke meats low and slow over open fires, coated in minimal (sometimes just salt and pepper!).