You're quite right that imperial palace traditions were necessary for cuisines to innovate and develop into their respective "haute" variants. Indian and Chinese cuisines owe much of their distinct flavours to ingredients originally from Mesoamerica, so your ranking makes perfect sense to me.
Interesting no African foundational cuisine, sub Saharan at least. Otherwise they correspond to continents, except Australia I guess because of remoteness.
You're quite right that imperial palace traditions were necessary for cuisines to innovate and develop into their respective "haute" variants. Indian and Chinese cuisines owe much of their distinct flavours to ingredients originally from Mesoamerica, so your ranking makes perfect sense to me.
Love it!
Great article. Thanks for summarizing what I have been thinking for years. Just one correction. Cacao’s originated in the Amazon basin
Interesting no African foundational cuisine, sub Saharan at least. Otherwise they correspond to continents, except Australia I guess because of remoteness.