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Italian cuisine is particularly enjoyable for this. The carbonara sauce was an improvisation by an American army cook, and one of the first recipes had it made with cream.

And part off modern sushi is Norwegian, as they had an excess of salmon they kind of imposed the idea to use it on sushi, which worked.

Chilly peppers in Indian cuisine where introduced by the Portugese

Cuisine is one of the most fusion sensitive bits of culture out there and most claims of originality are bogus in a way.

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Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t think a dish has to be 100% original from the domestication of the species of the ingredients all the way to the invention of the dish. I would say it’s valid to claim a variation of a dish with just one tiny tweak. Norwegians can’t claim the entirety of sushi but they are totally valid in claiming specifically salmon sushi. The French can’t claim to have invented neither wheat, flour, bread, the baking of bread in ovens or any of the other steps it took in-between, but they can claim the baguette specifically as a French bread.

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- Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t think any food type can be claimed by a nation, that idea is very novel. You talk about bread and I think about the quintessential Italian ciabatta bread, which was invented in the 1990’s.
  
  But I do really enjoy experiencing different cultures. I don’t subscribe to the idea of ownership of any of it by any country or culture. That is all.
  
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  - Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The Swedes can keep the entire claim to Surströmming.
    
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surströmming
    
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    HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That just gets a bad reputation because of non AI slop on social media.
    
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    Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Have you met our Lord and savior hakarl?
    
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  - jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The idea of a national culture having some claim on a food type is novel? I’d say the concept is pretty common and widespread.
    
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    Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes it’s quite novel. Most national identities and stereotypes are from the latter half of the nineteenth century. Read Eric Hobsbawns ‘the invention of tradition’’ for example.
    
    The Italian cuisine and it’s staples are very much a construction from the post war period, look at the history of the spaghetti carbonara, which was wiped up by an American army cook, but was later elevated to an supposedly ‘ancient’ recipe.
    
    But before the era of nationalism most people didn’t think in terms of nations and national stereotypes.
    
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    basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Novel and widespread have nothing to do with aech other.
    
    From the wikipedia article about nations:
    
    The broad consensus amongst scholars of nationalism is that nations are a recent phenomenon. However, some historians argue that their existence can be traced to the medieval period, or a minority believe even to antiquity.
    
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