Eastern European cuisine is a generic term regarding the cuisine of Central and Eastern Europe (including the Caucasus, but excluding most Balkan countries).
The cuisine of a country is strongly influenced by its climate. For example, German cuisine, Polish cuisine, Austrian and Russian cuisine show many similarities, yet differ considerably from the cuisines of the Balkan peninsula.
Famous quotes containing the words eastern, european and/or cuisine:
“See how from far upon the eastern road
The star-led Wizards haste with odours sweet . . .”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)