What's your favourite European food ?

[Savorgnan]

My favourite dish is yellow sweet-pepper risotto...Every kind of other risotti,polente,paste...Cervelas,quenelles,"tablier de sapeur"...And the list goes on...I'd better stop before I get hungry like Gargantua!

[Kalevi]

I may be biased because I'm a northern hick and not much of a culinarist (food is a mean of filling your stomach), but the best food I've ever eaten was sauerkraut and bratwurst in an old Bavarian beer hall. Different kinds of real, meaty sausages (not like that industrial crap we have here), different kinds of brötchen, sauerkraut, weissbier..



Italian foods are classics. Traditional Slovenian food was also very nice.

[GrafWilhelm]

German and italian, but polish is not bad.

[Carnyx]

I like a good Andouille from Guéméné (Brittany).

Andouille is composed primarily of the pork's intestines and stomach.

[Menydh]

I've heard that there is something in Sicily or in Calabria, which also has a similar name: anduglia or something like that.

edit: the Italian name of anduglia is correct, but it is said to derive from the French andouille and it is made in Campania. It is curious because an Italian friend always insists in that it is like the sobrasada from Majorca (and Valencia), which is not make with the budels but with pork meat and lean, sweet and hot pimenton, and then fermented and dry cured..

[Sturmwaffen]

I absolutely love Italian food, but German food surpasses all.

I eat my sauerkraut un-cooked. Hah.

[riga]

My favourite: Italian food.
But every European country has it's own attractive dishes e.g. Sauerbraten from Germany.

[Lutiferre]

I bet theres an extraordinary amount of delicious European food I havent tasted. But I can say with certainty that I love Danish food, whether it be traditional or newer. I havent tried much German food, but to be honest all those sausages disgust me. Well, I like sausage, just not too much. I love many different salamis and "spegepølse", which I guess is the Danish word for it. Also I love Italian and Greek food, like almost everyone else.

Come to think of it, I actually have tried some German food, when I was in the Heidelberg area of Southern Germany where I have some ancestry (very beautiful and cultured area, btw). Tasted very good, but I dont remember exactly what I got, many years ago now.

[Delbáeth]

Scottish food.

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

I like a good Andouille from Guéméné (Brittany).

Miam, c'est bon l'andouille...

Talking of these Carnyx, do you like the andouillette? I absolutely adore it.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Savorgnan

Miam, c'est bon l'andouille...

Talking of these Carnyx, do you like the andouillette? I absolutely adore it.

I do, Savorgnan. Miam miam.

Basically, I like anything made out of this:

Beside that, I like Occitan and Mediterranean food.

We French simply like ze food.

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Basically, I like anything made out of this:

Beside that, I like Occitan and Mediterranean food.

We French simply like ze food.

Same thing here, the lands of my ancestry are charcuterie (I guess they use this gallicism) lands. As so, I practice the saucisson religion.

Cows are just good to produce milk, so we can make good cheese. I still appreciate a good charolais meat though, from time to time.

[Menydh]

How about a thread of pork dishes and produces?

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

How about a thread of pork dishes and produces?

You won't have to say it twice, I'm on!

[Christabel]

By the way ... Talking about statistics and international prizes (nothing to do with REAL food, but as a curiosity...)

A spanish cook, Ferran Adriá, has been awarded as the best one in the world for the last three years.

The best restaurants in the world:

1. The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, Britain
2. El Bulli, Montjoi, Spain
3. French Laundry, California
4. Tetsuya’s, Sydney, Australia
5. Gordon Ramsay, London, Britain
6. Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, France
7. Per Se, New York, New York
8. Tom Aikens, London, Britain
9. Jean Georges, New York, New York
10. St John, London, Britain
11. Michel Bras, Laguiole, France
12. Louis XV, Monaco
13. Chez Panisse, California
14. Charlie Trotter, Chicago, Illinois
15. Gramercy Tavern, New York, New York
16. Guy Savoy, Paris, France
17. Alain Ducasse, Paris, France
18. Sketch (Gallery), London, Britain
19. The Waterside Inn, Bray, Britain
20. Nobu, London, Britain
21. Arzak, San Sebastian, Spain
22. El Raco de can Fabes, Spain
23. Checcino dal 1887, Rome, Italy
24. Le Meurice, Paris, France
25. L’Hotel de Ville, Crissier, Switzerland
26. Arpege, Paris, France
27. The Connaught, London, Britain
28. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxford, Britain
29. Le Cinq, Paris, France
30. Hakkasan, London, Britain
31. Cal Pep, Barcelona, Spain

And they say the countries always fighting one-another to get that international prestige are:
France- USA? - Italy and Spain
which is basically mediterranean cooking

[Llywarch Hen]

I just got given a nice bowl of Schi by my girlfriend's Mamochka, and slabs of pork with a very nice mushroom salad, so I'm voting Russian.

I do love a bit of Gulash though, so additional congratulations to the Magyars! The dumplings in a Czech themed place in town are lovely too, so the Czechs can have an honourable mention too. I like proper stodgy food.

The English can't be beaten for pies and sausages though! Or cakes...