American Soul Food
The southern Black American cuisine of fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, and slow-cooked pork, born of West African roots and plantation-era ingenuity.
17 cuisines containing the letter M — each with origin, classification, and notes.
Below are cuisines that contain the letter M anywhere in the name. Each of the 17 cuisines below opens to a full profile.
The southern Black American cuisine of fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, and slow-cooked pork, born of West African roots and plantation-era ingenuity.
A post-1980s fusion cuisine drawing on Mediterranean, Asian, and Indigenous bush-tucker traditions, layered over the country's British colonial-era table.
A Southeast Asian cuisine sitting between India and China, defined by fish sauce, fermented tea leaves, generous oil, and a love of tart fresh salads.
An ancient Southeast Asian cuisine of curry pastes (kroeung), prahok fermented fish, and palm sugar, less chili-driven than its Thai and Lao neighbors.
A Central African cuisine often called "the kitchen of Africa," blending West African palm-oil cooking with Sahelian, French, and German colonial layers.
A South American cuisine of arepas, hearty stews, and tropical fruit, divided into Andean, Caribbean, Pacific, and Amazonian regional kitchens.
An island cuisine of rice and beans, slow-stewed sancocho, and fried plantain mangú, blending Spanish, African, and Taino roots.
A 21st-century immigrant-driven cuisine blending Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese flavors with American formats — the food truck, the burger, the sandwich.
A central European cuisine of bread, sausage, pork, and beer, with strong regional swings from northern fish stews to southern dumpling tables.
The Caribbean island cuisine of jerk, ackee and saltfish, and curry goat, layering African, British, Indian, and Spanish strands over a Taino indigenous base.
The cuisine of Madagascar, anchored by rice three meals a day, with Southeast Asian, East African, and French strands stitched into one island table.
A Southeast Asian melting-pot cuisine that fuses Malay, Chinese, Indian, and Peranakan traditions into coconut-rich curries, fragrant rice, and skewered grills.
An ancient Mesoamerican cuisine of corn, beans, chili, and tomato, layered with Spanish colonial influences and recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage.
A North African cuisine of tagines, couscous, preserved lemon, and the spice market — Berber, Arab, Andalusian, and French strands woven together.
A Texas-Mexican border cuisine of fajitas, chili con carne, and yellow-cheese enchiladas, distinct from interior Mexican cooking and proudly American.
A Southeast Asian cuisine built on fresh herbs, clear broths, and the salty-sweet balance of nuoc cham, layered with French and Chinese influences.
A southern Arabian cuisine of slow-cooked lamb, hilbeh fenugreek foam, and fiery zhug, with one of the oldest coffee cultures on earth.
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