Regional Discretion

Wow, this is going to be an interesting year.  Just looking over a couple maps to come up with these regions (and the subsequent quick n dirty Google searches to see if they even *have* traditional food) has granted me a glimpse of foresight into what could be a very enlightening and eye-opening year. 

So first up, here's my list, in alphabetical order.  I've searched the wide webs for blogs about cooking within each general region, preferably with a humanitarian bent to them, and found a few.  I'll likely add more when I come to the actual week.  If you host a blog that writes about one of these regions, feel free to let me know and I'll add you to the list. I'm excited to see how much I'm going to learn this year.

Regions: 

1. Afghani
2.  Algerian
3.  Argentin
4.  Aruban
5.  Australian
6.  Austrian
7.  Brazilian (right off the bat I see a recipe for Pão de Queijo...I cannot wait for Brazilian week!!)
8.  Cambodian
9.  Cuban
10.  Danish
11.  Dutch
12.  Egyptian
13.  English
14.  Ethiopian
15.  French
16.  German
17.  Greek
18.  Hungarian
19.  Icelandic
20.  Indian
21.  Indonesian
22.  Iranian
23.  Iraqi
24.  Irish
25.  Italian
26.  Japanese 
27.  Kenyan
28.  Korean
29.  Malaysian
30.  Mongolian
31.  Moroccan
32.  Nepali
33.  New England
34.  New Zealand
35.  Nicaraguan
36.  Northern Mexican
37.  Norwegian
38.  Peruvian
39.  Polish
40.  Polynesian
41.  Portuguese
42.  Russian
43.  Scottish
44.  Sicilian (prepare for all manner of Princess Bride jokes!)
45.  South African
46.  Southern America
47.  Spanish
48.  Sri Lankan
49.  Swiss
50.  Thai
51.  Turkish
52.  Vietnamese (I WILL make pho this week!)

Around the G's, I discovered this list as well.  Huzzah!

I'm also starting a wishlist on Amazon for cookbooks that look interesting/promising.  If you know of a particular book that is especially good for a given region, please let me know!

In the interest of time, I'm going to post this today and make the command decision that next week is going to be Italian week. I'll make a separate post for the recipe list.

I've added a calendar to the sidebar, so you can see what week we're on.  Each calendar "appointment" will have all the recipes (or links to them) and the full shopping list (edit at your own discretion) in the description, and you can add it to your own calendar if you'd like to cook along for that week.  Keep an eye out for that calendar to update in the next week or so with the full year's worth of regions!

Let's get this started!