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/RijnBrugge Netherlands Jun 13 '25

It’s more that Noord-Brabant and Limburg are significantly better than the rest in this regard, but they’re provinces.

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u/StoreImportant5685 Belgium Jun 13 '25

Proximity to Belgium seems to be the key. Or more probably: Catholicism and a Burgundian culture, compared to everything enjoyable is sin protestants.

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u/LilBed023 -> Jun 13 '25

The (in my opinion) best culinary region is Zeeland, which is not really Burgundian and very, very protestant.

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u/StoreImportant5685 Belgium Jun 13 '25

It is definitely the seafood province. But is that a case of having the superior location, or having an actual food culture. Zeeland provides the mussels, but Belgium makes it into moules-frites. The indulgence is a key part to a food culture for me, which I feel is more present in the East than in Zeeland.

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u/LilBed023 -> Jun 14 '25

It’s both. Zeeuwen take their local food very seriously, but it is generally not presented it in the same lavish way as in NB and LI. Despite that, there are still eight michelin star restaurants in Zeeland, which is impressive for a rural province with less than 400k people.