Talk:Middle Eastern cuisine

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"Kosher" as a category is completely orthogonal to "Middle Eastern". Kosher (like Halal or Vegan or Christian-fasting) is a cultural/religious category, not a regional one. There is Kosher Polish, Kosher Sephardic, Kosher Indian, etc. So the 'Kosher' category doesn't belong here. Israeli cooking, on the other hand, probably does.--Macrakis 04:32, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Please explain to me (no Native English speaker) what "Middle Eastern" means. The Wikipedia entry on "Middle East" say it is the region from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. If so, what does Ethiopic or Moroccan cooking have to do with Middle-Eastern cuisine?

The Middle East is North Africa (Morroco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) and Southwest Asia (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait). Ethiopia does not belong in this category, it is African cuisine. --S.M. 9 July 2005 05:54 (UTC)

According to my understanding, the Middle East as a geographical term does not include Morocco and probably neither Algeria nor Tunisia. Whether the cooking style resembles that of the Middle East is a completely different question. The article is not very precise in this respect.--193.196.193.21 16:29, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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Woah, is that last cuisine some sort of sick joke? Mythyval (talk) 03:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)