Has Australia imported such amazing food from other countries that we just haven’t bothered to come up with a cuisine of our own?
Wilson Villar’s restaurant is all the way out in Lince, hardly the coolest of Lima’s many neighbourhoods. It’s not like Barranco or Miraflores, places tourists tend to stay, fancy suburbs filled with the eateries currently winning global fame for Peruvian cuisine.
That’s the bit I’m struck by: how naturally, almost flippantly, he tells me about Peru’s new favourite sauce. Because, I’m thinking, when was the last time Australia came up with a new sauce? In fact, is there a single sauce that we can claim as our own? And if I’m wrong – and CNN is also wrong – then what are the really impressive Australian dishes? What are the complex, unique, delicious plates of food that are entirely our own?I’m not really here to whinge, though. What I want to do instead is pay tribute to the countries that are incredibly creative when it comes to cuisine, which travellers can visit to experience a whole world of gastronomy that isn’t just hybrids of other people’s ideas.
You would have to point out India too, which is in some ways very famous for food, though in other ways completely misunderstood. This is a country with a huge range of cuisines that span far more than the classic Punjabi-influenced menus you see at pretty much every Indian restaurant outside the subcontinent.
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