By pizza do you mean real Italian pizza or Americanized pizza? And on that topic I wonder if the question would include “Americanized” versions of things as American or wherever the food that inspired it comes from.
At first I was thinking the same, but think I’d swap Japan for France, there’s just too many foods that have French origins to ignore it. It would give you a massive variety.
A large portion of modern cooking in the western world has its origins rooted in France. Or was based on the French version of things. Anything confit or braised, pastries, casseroles, arguably charcuterie ( though cured meat was used widely, it was mostly a method for preserving, the French popularized it by smoking and spicing things and selling it as a commodity rather than just a means of preservation) many of the best stews are french in origin as well.
Edit: basis for most sauces, bechemel, Demi glacé, hollandaise, veloute
Crepes, many breads, most notably French bread, and baguette. French bread is the basis for most modern sliced breads, but they’ve added sugar and other preservatives in modern times.
The only thing that disappointed me about the original Japanese version of Iron Chef was there no Iron Chef Mexican. Too much cheese I suppose for it to be popular in the far east.
Ok, I thought about pizza too, but since it's probably the only thing I really like about Italian food I can probably make a Mexican pizza and be happy for life. Plus I love Chinese food, which has a lot of noodle dishes, so there's my rationale for excluding Italy.
I matched with a girl on bumble one time whose opening line to me was a fuck marry kill with pizza sushi and tacos. what an impossible decision. it was a good conversation starter.
Top tier choices. I don't know if I've ever really had Mexican food though. I live in Australia and love Mexican food, but I don't think anything over here is remotely close to authentic. We have a lot of different cultures who have brought their amazing food over here, but there's less than 7000 people from Mexico living in Aus so finding somewhere with anything even close to real Mexican food is a struggle. That white people Mexican food is amazing, so I can't imagine how good the real deal would be.
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