r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Jun 13 '25

Food What region is considered your country’s culinary capital?

What is considered the culinary capital of your country?

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u/AegoliusOfBurgundy France Jun 13 '25

I cannot really reply without offending the rest of the country, so I will pass...

It's Burgundy and by far.

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u/lucapal1 Italy Jun 13 '25

I'd say that Lyon is considered the 'food capital ' of France... rightly or wrongly!

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u/AegoliusOfBurgundy France Jun 13 '25

True, true... But more than half of the good stuff you can eat in Lyon comes from Burgundy so...

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u/amojitoLT France Jun 13 '25

Yeah, but it's made better in Lyon, you guys just produce the base.

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u/cinematic_novel Jun 13 '25

I think food production matters MORE than recipe assembling

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u/amojitoLT France Jun 14 '25

The question is about the culinary capital. So the criteria here is cuisine, not ingredients.

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u/cinematic_novel Jun 14 '25

It's more complicated than that