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title: International Cuisines
description: This topic covers the traditional ingredients, flavor profiles, and cooking methods of diverse global cultures. You will understand how regional geography, history, and agricultural practices shape culinary traditions and learn to prepare authentic international dishes.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: cooking-and-culinary
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/international-cuisines
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# International Cuisines

This topic covers the traditional ingredients, flavor profiles, and cooking methods of diverse global cultures. You will understand how regional geography, history, and agricultural practices shape culinary traditions and learn to prepare authentic international dishes.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. The Woks of Life

Recipe site run by a Chinese-American family of four cooks, with a large archive of tested home and restaurant-style Chinese recipes plus ingredient and pantry guides. Teaches wok technique, sauces, dumplings and regional dishes, and how to source and substitute Chinese ingredients.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thewoksoflife.com/

**Tags:** chinese-cuisine, wok-cooking, recipes, asian-ingredients, home-cooking

### 2. serious-eats.com

Serious Eats is a food site featuring chef-tested recipes, cooking techniques, and culinary science explainers. For knife skills, it offers step-by-step tutorials on grip and handling, basic cuts (dice, julienne, brunoise), safety tips, and sharpening guidance, often with photos and videos.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://serious-eats.com

**Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 3. rouxbe.com

Rouxbe is an online culinary school that delivers professional-grade cooking training through step-by-step video lessons and guided practice. It features a comprehensive knife skills course along with other foundational techniques and certification options.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://rouxbe.com

**Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 4. The Kitchn

Home-cooking site from Apartment Therapy Media with step-by-step technique guides, recipes, ingredient explainers, kitchen tips and equipment advice, written by a staff of home cooks to help beginners prepare everyday meals and build confidence with basic kitchen methods.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thekitchn.com

**Tags:** home-cooking, cooking-techniques, recipes, kitchen-basics

## Books

### 1. The Essential Cuisines of Mexico

**Author:** Diana Kennedy

Diana Kennedy's comprehensive reference combining The Cuisines of Mexico, Mexican Regional Cooking and The Tortilla Book, plus thirty-plus newer regional recipes. Teaches masa and tortillas, chiles, moles, salsas and regional dishes, with the techniques and ingredient knowledge behind traditional Mexican cooking.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/030758772X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 2. Ottolenghi Simple

Ottolenghi Simple - A book resource

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0008554714?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

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