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.
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“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)