By cuisine

The world's cuisines, by flavor.

Every cuisine tastes like something — a center of gravity across savory depth, bright acid, heat, and richness. Here's the flavor character of each cuisine in the Palate corpus, read straight from the engine's profiles, with a few dishes to start from.

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In one paragraph

Palate's recipe corpus holds 4,566 recipes whose raw cuisine labels collapse, through a hand-curated taxonomy, to 126 canonical world cuisines (regional labels like Sichuan are grouped under their parent cuisine rather than counted separately). This page groups the corpus by canonical cuisine and shows, for each cuisine with at least five dishes, its dish count and its dominant flavor character — computed as the average of the engine's measured 18-note flavor profiles for that cuisine's dishes, read off the two loudest of the six hexagon axes. The characterizations describe the recipes in this corpus, not a claim about any cuisine as cooked in the world.

Indian

223 dishes

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Mexican

197 dishes

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American

185 dishes

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Japanese

151 dishes

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Korean

150 dishes

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Italian

149 dishes

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Greek

142 dishes

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Thai

136 dishes

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French

116 dishes

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Vietnamese

116 dishes

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Italian-American

110 dishes

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Spanish

97 dishes

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Chinese

97 dishes

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Southern

93 dishes

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Cajun/Creole

89 dishes

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Middle Eastern

88 dishes

Leans rich & fat & sour & bright across the corpus.

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Moroccan

85 dishes

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Tex-Mex

82 dishes

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Brazilian

81 dishes

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German

80 dishes

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British

80 dishes

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Portuguese

80 dishes

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Georgian

80 dishes

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Chinese-American

80 dishes

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Turkish

79 dishes

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Lebanese

79 dishes

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Hungarian

79 dishes

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Filipino

79 dishes

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Peruvian

78 dishes

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Polish

78 dishes

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Russian

78 dishes

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Malaysian

78 dishes

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Persian

78 dishes

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Egyptian

77 dishes

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Indonesian

77 dishes

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Jamaican

77 dishes

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Cuban

77 dishes

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Argentine

77 dishes

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Nigerian

76 dishes

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Ethiopian

55 dishes

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Mediterranean

33 dishes

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Scandinavian

30 dishes

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Danish

17 dishes

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Swedish

17 dishes

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Fusion

16 dishes

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Norwegian

15 dishes

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Basque

14 dishes

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Latin American

11 dishes

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Finnish

11 dishes

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Ghanaian

10 dishes

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Irish

9 dishes

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South African

9 dishes

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Burmese

9 dishes

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Caribbean

8 dishes

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Serbian

8 dishes

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Swahili Coast

8 dishes

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Soul Food

7 dishes

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Eritrean

7 dishes

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Colombian

6 dishes

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Puerto Rican

6 dishes

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Trinidadian

6 dishes

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Ukrainian

6 dishes

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Syrian

6 dishes

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Bosnian

6 dishes

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Palestinian

6 dishes

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Icelandic

6 dishes

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Iraqi

5 dishes

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Venezuelan

5 dishes

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Austrian

5 dishes

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Somali

5 dishes

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Yemeni

5 dishes

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Romanian

5 dishes

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Croatian

5 dishes

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New Mexican

5 dishes

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Senegalese

5 dishes

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Ashkenazi

5 dishes

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Haitian

5 dishes

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Kenyan

5 dishes

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Czech

5 dishes

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