As with any other type of food, raw food offers regional flavors so you will always have a great variety in your raw food lifestyle. Here are some examples of raw foods and spices that make up various regional cuisine throughout the world and should give you some ideas for delicious recipes.
Italy and Sicily use a lot of garlic, basil, olive oil and oregano in their food. Spainish and Mexican food uses cilantro, cumin, jajapeno and other chiles, as well as olive oil and garlic. African cuisine, especially Morroccan uses cilantro, ginger, cinnamon and cumin. Moving East, to the Middle East. Middle eastern cuisine features mint, oregano, cinnamon and parsley, and also olive oil and garlic, which seems to have broad appeal across many cultures. Further east, Indian food again uses garlic, as well as ginger, curry, cumin, sesame, and fennel. In the Far East there is Thai and Bali whose flavors come from coriander, curry, cumin, and tamarind, as well as galangal root and basil. The Chinese and Japanese use sesame, as well as ginger, and again garlic. |
