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 Cheesecakes, and in particular it's history and origins. Also presented are typical recipes for a Cheesecakes, as well as variants, alternates and recipes from other cultures (including savoury cheesecakes). I hope you enjoy this page and will make use of the recipes for your own Cheesecake-based celebrations.

This historical information about Cheesecakes is given below and below that you will find all the Cheesecake-related 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.

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.