I love to cook and eat Italian food. It's kind of crazy to think about how much Italian food has influenced American cuisine
My mother's Korean friend asked her to teach her American cooking. She taught her to make spaghetti and meatballs and eggplant parm. She wasn't even Italian-American! She was from Germany.
Wow that is awesome! I love eggplant parm. The word for "eggplant" in England is actually a French word: "aubergine"
Eggplant is one of my faves, too. The English have different words for other foods, too. Like a squash is a marrow,
Interesting! There is actually another word "cucurbita" that the Latins say instead of "gourd" and I think it just sounds so much better
It's charming. I like Latin-American food, too. Dominican, Puerto Rican, Mexican... Mexican is one of my favorite cuisines.
Yeah, and a lot of Latin-American food is maize-based, such as arepas, pupusas, tacos, and tamales. Cheese pupusas are my favorite!
I've never had a pupusa and I want to. I love arepas, and that's similar, right?