Welcome to FabulousFusionFood's National Dish Recipes Page — This page gives links to national dishes from countries from all around the world.

Here you will learn a little about what constitutes a National Dish, along with links to the national dishes for every country on earth. I hope you enjoy this page and will make use of the recipes for your own culinary tour of the globe.

This historical information about Cheesecakes is given below and below that you will find all the National Dish recipes on this site.

National Dishes:

A national dish is a culinary dish that is strongly associated with a particular country. A dish can be considered a national dish for a variety of reasons:

• It is a staple food, made from a selection of locally available foodstuffs that can be prepared in a distinctive way, such as fruits de mer, served along the west coast of France.
• It contains a particular ingredient that is produced locally, such as a paprika grown in the European Pyrenees.
• It is served as a festive culinary tradition that forms part of a cultural heritage—for example, barbecues at summer camp or fondue at dinner parties—or as part of a religious practice, such as Korban Pesach or Iftar celebrations.
• It has been promoted as a national dish, by the country itself, such as the promotion of fondue as a national dish of Switzerland by the Swiss Cheese Union (Schweizerische Käseunion) in the 1930s.

National dishes are part of a nation's identity and self-image. During the age of European empire-building, nations would develop a national cuisine to distinguish themselves from their rivals.

Some countries such as Mexico, China or India, because of their diverse ethnic populations, cultures, and cuisines, do not have a single national dish, even unofficially. Furthermore, because national dishes are so interwoven into a nation's sense of identity, strong emotions and conflicts can arise when trying to choose a country's national dish.

In contrast, some nations compile lists of national and traditional dishes and recently Saudi Arabia named Al Kabsa and Jareesh as its national dishes.

As a result, there will always be some ambiguity when choosing a national dish or dishes. For this reason, the list below cannot be definitive. Rather, this is a list of a list of some foods that have been suggested to be or might be recognised as national dishes. In some cases, a national dish can be a union of several dishes presented as a meal (eg tatties and neeps with haggis in Scotland) in which case you will find all the components in the list below.