Name a foreign or regional food you ate for the first time and will always eat in the future.

[Sequoia]

I know this sounds weired but I didn't have pizza or bagles when I was a kid growing up in NC until I was in high school. Didn't have bagles until after I turned 21 and moved to California.

[mainegreen]

1. I don't think there is any food I'm willing to commit that seriously to.

I'm just not that kind of guy.

[grannylib]

2. Czech poppy seed kolacky (sweet roll)

My mother-in-law makes the best ones; mine are getting there...but not up to her level yet *lol*

[antigone382]

25. Ooh! We make Polish Kolackies in my family...

favorite flavors are raspberry and apricot. It isn't Christmas without them...

[grannylib]

27. A lot of folks make the apricot ones in the Czech community too;

my mother-in-law makes prune and poppy seed, but I like the poppy seed best :-) Raspberry sounds wonderful! I will have to try that sometime.

[kwassa]

3. Couscous

Had it in Morocco in 1973 and have made it myself ever since.

[Initech]

4. Pho

[XemaSab]

23. Food of the GODS

:9

[lost-in-nj]

5. Conch fritters

yup


LOVE them, had them in the Bahamas for the first time 6-7 years ago...
everytime we go back I have them... In FL to...

lost


:hi:


I like mine with tomato sauce to

[kentauros]

6. Falafel :)

I didn't have it until I moved into the city of Houston, even if I grew up on the fringes of this fine city. The suburbs at the time (1960s-1980s) didn't have much "ethnic" food, though there was one Indian food place that was quite good.

I have learned from the way the Lebonese make it and the way the Palestinians make it, that there's a world of difference in spices, size and texture. I prefer the Palestinian means and will have to tell the one place I know to get it more of my culinary exploits around town :)

By the way, I love "kolaches", especially the poppyseed kind as Central Texas has quite the Czech population (even their own festival every year) and I know what the real kind of kolache is, unlike those faux ones by Kolache Factory. I used to have a decent recipe for them, but I guess I'll have to search it down online...

[yellowdogintexas]

7. more like what I tried once and said never again, that would be easier

but...stuff I didn't eat growing up that I loved the first time I ate it and so continue to eat

curry
pho
pad thai
fresh sardines and anchovies (but only in Spain)
Weiner Schnitzel
enchiladas
black beans and rice
spanikopita
pastitso
moussaka
hummus
pita bread
bagels
cannoli
quiche
Szechuan and Hunan style chinese food

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Spanikopita

I make a kickass Spanikopita. :9

[NightWatcher]

9. schwarmas (sp) from a Turkish rest in Amsterdam

I wasnt even stoned when I tried it, but now I get them from the mideastern place in JAX on a near weekly basis

[JCMach1]

21. Even better in the Middle-East.... Enjoy with Moutabel and Hummous

mmmmmm...

[Deja Q]

10. soylent green

:9

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[Zoigal]

11. Pelmini, a Russian type "ravioli"

[trof]

12. Pizza. College. 1959?

Dominos opened a 'parlor' just off the U. of Alabama campus.
I'd never heard of pizza.
I went.
I liked it.
I still eat it.

[Cabcere]

13. I didn't have Spaetzle until about two years ago

but I would eat it every day if I could. :9 (Of course, then I would be really really REALLY fat, lol, so maybe it's a good thing I can't get it much around here.) ;)

[jberryhill]

15. It's easy as hell to make, you know....

You can't make spaetzle wrong.

If you can mix some flour and an egg, and boil water, you can make spaetzle.

Just make a semi goopy mix, you can throw in a bit of water to stretch the egg... throw in a little bit of salt for taste, and then just drop spoonfuls of it into boiling water.

I grew up on spaetzle and goulash, and just look at me now!

(just ignore the weight and high cholesterol)

[IzaSparrow]

14. Cheese curds

traditional in Ontario

[begin_within]

20. I love those and it seems you can only get them in Wisconsin.

Even though they make cheese in California on a massive scale, you can't buy the curds here.

[IzaSparrow]

26. WI, MN, Quebec, Ontario

my future cousins-in-law had them at their wedding reception--or was it thanksgiving? doesn't matter, they got married right after thanksgiving.

the goodness of the cheese curd overshadows what day i actually ate them. :toast:

[Xipe Totec]

16. What's a bagel?

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Seriously, I didn't have one till I moved to New England.

[av8rdave]

17. souvflaki (sp?)

First tried it at a sidewalk restaurant in Athens...fell in love with it.

[QMPMom]

18. Pho. My favorite food of all time.

[begin_within]

19. Persian and Vietnamese are the 2 best cuisines

and 2 of the healthiest as well. Mexican and Italian are also good but much higher in fat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Pho. Love it!

[csziggy]

24. Bagels and Chinese food

Not really regional, but in the small Florida town I grew up in, there was neither. I was introduced to bagels when I started college ironically in St. Pete, Florida. Then when I transferred to Florida State in Tallahassee, I was introduced to real oriental/Chinese food at what I was told was a very authentic restaurant with a dojo in the back. Also another restaurant that was owned by a Chinese family was a favorite among students.

On the other hand, I grew up eating authentic Cuban food at the classic Columbia restaurant in Ybor City (Tampa).