Western cuisine

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Western cuisine is a term used for cuisine in The Americas and in Europe.

Compared to oriental cuisine, western cuisine tends to homogenize materials a lot, i.e., break them up and mix them up evenly. Oriental cuisine tend to keep materials in chunks to different extent, so that stimulations to different areas of the tongue generate more excitements of appetite

[edit] See also

• North American cuisine
• South American cuisine
• European cuisine