DEFINING CUISINE AND TYPES OF CUISINE

Abstract

When people are discussing about cuisine often there are inconsistencies on the perception of what exactly cuisine is and what it includes, especially when talking about a specific type of cuisine. The problem with precisely determining the types of cuisine is active. The goal of this paper is to give a universal definition for cuisine and to determine the categories of cuisine based on different criteria. Therefore the different definitions will be analyzed to summarize the most important elements into one definition. Achieving the second goal of this paper will be approach by the different adjectives given to cuisine (such as national, international, vegetarian etc.) that can help identify the categories of cuisine in which later different types will be determined. The results of this paper will help future researches to easily identify what is and what isn’t a part of a specific type of cuisine and how to approach the identification problem further by giving a frame of the different types of cuisine are.