We all have a soft spot for chefs and food bloggers, for online cooking courses and for those Youtube videos where they teach you how to make delicious meals in five minutes. We can tune on our favorite food TV channel, seat at a restaurant and upload photos of our plate to Instagram; we can learn all the tricks of the trade and follow all the plating and food presentation trends out there.
But cuisine is much more than that. “Cuisine” means traditions, local products and family recipes; it means time-honored dishes that bring us back to our childhood and connect us with the past. “Cuisine” is also made of collective flavors that a community shares, of culinary habits, celebrations and seasonality.