• wieson@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    I can not agree. As I said, potato and apple meet in half of my regional dishes. And those are farmer’s food, not rich.

    Scandinavian and Alpine dishes love lingonberry sauce on dark meat or schnitzel.

    I think the best way, is to not think of “western cuisine” as a thing that exists uniformly.

    PS: obviously we cook differently than SE Asia, but red cabbage is sweet, carrots are sweet and caramelised onions are sweet. And they are really often used with savory dishes.

    • Loki@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      Lingonberry sauce on meat, ham on melon, apple in coleslaw… Apple sauce on hash browns! I think every cuisine has combinations like that, but the specific ingredients are location specific.