[DBWI] The "Confederate Cuisine" Craze

We have talked suprisingly little about the "Confederate cuisine" craze that has swept the United States for the past few decades. IMO it is due largely to the political "exoticism" of the food. If the US had remained united, there would be nothing special about what would then be called "southern cooking"--it would be just another regional cuisine. Those in search of the exotic would have to go elsewhere--maybe even Chinese or Japanese food would become fashionable.

Of course the lifting of foreign travel restrictions on African-Confederates (including many very skilled cooks) after 1945 also played its part.
 
The United States? Meh, what's a trend in the Yanqui north compared to the cultural capitals of Ciudad de Mexico and El Paso and Los Angeles? The "trendy cuisine" of the day is either stuff from the Nymynyy Federation or from the Javan Republic these days.
 

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I would argue that the popularity of Southron cuisine derives from the Cajun element. Other cuisine combining New World, African, and European elements--such as the food of the Comanche Federation or Habsburg Empire of Mexico--are popular, and so is French cuisine. Southron or so-called "Confederate" cuisine which derives mainly from Louisiana has a similar variety of dishes which gives it common appeal.

The United States? Meh, what's a trend in the Yanqui north compared to the cultural capitals of Ciudad de Mexico and El Paso and Los Angeles? The "trendy cuisine" of the day is either stuff from the Nymynyy Federation or from the Javan Republic these days.
Yeah, the United States or Hermit Kingdom as it has often been called, has always been quite insular in its connections to the outside world. However, we discuss obscure countries all the time here on soc.history.what-if.
 
The Confederates clearly where influenced by their southern neighbours and by Africa (hence the use of spices such as harissa). Genuinly why i think southern food is better than northern food is the use of spices and how they've managed to infuse african cooking, cajun cooking and other nationalities.
 
I would argue that the popularity of Southron cuisine derives from the Cajun element. Other cuisine combining New World, African, and European elements--such as the food of the Comanche Federation or Habsburg Empire of Mexico--are popular, and so is French cuisine. Southron or so-called "Confederate" cuisine which derives mainly from Louisiana has a similar variety of dishes which gives it common appeal.

I tried Southron cuisine once, when I traveled to the Republic of Louisiana for a time. It reminded me strangely of home: all the mixed elements of the New and Old World, except the Asian elements were African instead. The culture was also eerily similar to my homeland of the Philippine Republic, what with all the folk Catholicism. There was even a small community of Filipinos there.

Sorry for the digression, but yeah, I can see why Southron cuisine holds some popular appeal, even if it is usually overlooked in the Mexican Empire.
 
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