This is the art of cooking. Or haute cuisine as the french say.

There are in my opinion four main cooking ways: asian, european, north american and south america, and everyone gave birth to a famous city, a real capital of the world gastronomy, namely Tokyo, Paris, New York, and Sao Paolo .

If you visited one of these cities, you will agree with me, I think, there is nothing to compare to them from these point of vue.

But what is making these cities so special is not their specific. Rather than that is the variety of the restaurants carying the specific of a certain nation, very remoted from these cities, e,g thai kitchen, vietnamese kitchen ,african kitchen, lebanese kitchen, mexican, german, russian, etc, etc.

So, a first conclusion is that gastronmy is a neverending story .Tasting foods and wine is the first and also the last pleasure in this life for any of us,if you agree! The history of gastronomy itself is another problem!

Eating the local foods wherever you travel helps you undoubtfully to understand the spirit of those visited places. Every place on Earth tastes and smells different, practise them.

And bear in mind something: eating should not be only a joy of your mouth and stomach! Definitely not! You must be also very carefully to other senses, enjoying them too: sight, smell(much more difficult to hear the dishes, what do you believe?)

About particular kitchens and local foods, I will report very soon.