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Cuisine (from French ''cuisine'', "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin ''coquere'', "to cook") is a specific set of Cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific Culture . Religious food laws can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. For example, the American-Chinese dish Chop Suey clearly reflected the adaptation of Chinese Cuisine to the Ingredient s available in North America. OVERVIEW The last century has produced enormous improvements in food production, preservation, storage and shipping. Today almost every locale in the world has access to not only its traditional cuisine, but also to many other world cuisines as well. New cuisines are constantly evolving, as certain aesthetics rise and fall in popularity among professional Chef s and their clientèle. Nevertheless, French cooking techniques have been a major influence on virtually all Western cuisines. In addition to Food , a cuisine is also often held to include Beverage s, including Wine , Liquor , Tea , Coffee and other drinks. Increasingly, experts hold that it further includes the raw ingredients and original plants and animals from which they come. The Slow Food movement is a global effort to preserve local plants, animals, and techniques of food preparation. It has 70,000 adherents in 50 countries (mainly in the Latin countries of Europe). There are also different cultural attitudes to food, for example:
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