food geographic history

Nouvelle cuisine is an approach to cooking that focuses on fewer higher-quality ingredients, and less complex recipes.
- In my opinion, it's just snobbery. [1] [2] It also takes French cooking in the wrong direction — from bland cuisine [3] [4] [5] to even blander.
- It doesn't help that white people are stereotyped for their bland food. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- New American cuisine derives from nouvelle cuisine, and has similar problems. [2]
Europeans were literally the reason that Afro-Euroasians gained access to chili peppers. Before the Columbian Exchange, the peppers were confined to Central and South America. Yet, paradoxically, European cuisine gained a reputation for incorporating chili peppers less than other regional cuisines. Why? This makes no sense.
- TODO: Figure out why.
- Funnily enough, Europeans obtained chili pepper plants from false India and brought them [2] to true India.
- Scientific-ish suggestions I've heard about why some regions took up chili peppers and others didn't: Chili peppers may have some anti-microbial properties. [2]
- More rigorous explanations [1] [2]

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