What are some foods from your culture?

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I'm Black mixed with some Caribbean, Dominican, Jamaican, and Puerto Rican. I love cooking food from my culture. My bf is German American and he loves my cooking.

From My Culture That I like to Cook:

-Tamales
-Frog Legs
-Chicken Gizzards
-Oxtail
-Fuufuu
-Coco bread
-Rice w/beans
-Fried Plantains
-Taquitos
-Empanadas
-Rice pudding
You got to try some alligator. It's really good
 
Puerto Rican food and I also like Mexican and Italian.

fried yellow bananas and plantains
yellow rice and beans
baked pork
chicken

pasteles (mix of mushed plantains in evaporatd water with condiments inside)

fried patties

mofongo (mushed plantains with garlic,fried pork and a home made sauce with meat or seafood and other herbal condiments)

garlic bread

flan
puddin

and so on... Im hungry!
 
bacon an cabbage,
irish stew
soda bread (yum!)
white puddin
potatoe bread
cull channain
 
I'm so mixed - Irish, French, Polish, Greek, and Russian.
I like corned beef and cabbage, croissants, crepes, pierogis, pastitsio, baklava, avgolemono soup and of course vodka and champagne!
I'm so glad my family still fed me all this regional cuisine even though I am of such mixed heritage.
 
when i was a black man many years ago it was:
soul food

now that i am a white woman:
salad
 
Fry bread, Salmon, Chada Bread, all kinds of seafood cooked in every way you can think, wild fruits and berries....yum yum...especially the mountain strawberries, smaller than your smallest finger nail, but packed with more flavor than those monster strawberries at the grocery stores...
 
Mmm! Where did you say you lived? I'm coming over for dinner. 8^)

Well I am an American and we have very little of our own foods. I consider myself very lucky to live on the West Coast where we have people from everywhere, and they all contribute to our culture, and the first way we learn about them is through their food. There is always some new thing to try out. 15 years ago Indian food was considered exotic, now it's almost as popular as Mexican food. (And Mexican food is an indigenous part of our culture here in California because the place was -part- of Mexico!)

My own people are Jewish, Eastern European. We have wonderful things like strudel, kugel, herring, gefilte fish, and special seasonal or holiday things like potato latkes and hamentaschen.

Sadly (or happily, depending on how you think of it) this cuisine is very high in fat and cholesterol, and is really designed for people who work hard all day. If you sit in front of a computer all day, this stuff will kill you! So we see it as a once-in-a-while thing. But the same can be said for what most people think of as -American- food--20 oz. steaks, fried chicken, chicken fried steaks, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits and gravy, basically anything with gravy. 8^) It worked fine 150 years ago when people worked on a farm all day.
 
I am Cuban but do not know any Cuban foods...I enjoy eastern foods such as Thai-curry and Indian-vindaloo
 
I am Cuban but do not know any Cuban foods...I enjoy eastern foods such as Thai-curry and Indian-vindaloo
 
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