You should look at food that are on the glycemic index. The index rates carbohydrates based on their effect on blood glucose levels. You should try to incorporate foods that are low on the index into your diet. Here is the website for the glycemic index: http://www.glycemicindex.com/
Italians basically use the same preperation techniques and methods as we do, although in some recipes the require long preparation for example marinating meat for 4 days etc etc. They also use different cooking fats in different regions for example fats and oils. They prefer to use fresh ingredients instead of canned or frozen ingredients like most of us use. Hope this helps
mise en place- everything in it's place
To saute, you heat the skillet until the oil barely sizzles in it. This allows to sear the outsides of the ingredients before other methods of cooking like braising.
is a method of food preparation (through heat,acid or mixed with seasoning) that enables the consumption of the prepared food after practicing all methods specified in aparticular recipe
Different methods of cooking, and different ingredients. In other words, it's basically like comparing French food and German food.
Japanes methods
Some basic cooking methods in China include high heating elements and ways to prepare proteins. These cooking methods are stir-frying or grilling.
Whatever the Australian cooking method is. :)
A combination of cooking methods is using two or more methods of cooking a food to get the desired finished product. For example, one might saute a food to quickly begin the cooking process or to brown its surface and then stew it slowly to finish it.
Boiling--you can "hard boil" or "soft boil" Frying--you can cook one side (sunnyside up) or both (over easy) or scramble before frying Poaching
Until information was widely shared and available, cooking was strictly codified according to the methods developed by the initial developers of the cuisine. We were limited by unavailable ingredients, unshared techniques, etc. As we've moved into the new millenium, recipes, methods, cookware, ingredients and techniques have become widely available and cuisine has become significantly much more diversified (think fusion cooking; think molecular gastronomy). Progressive cooking is using all the new technologies, foods and information to keep cuisine evolving in a forward direction. It's moving forward and trying all the new things that are available to us in new ways.
There are several different methods and ingredients to cooking Hawaiian Poke. One recipe calls for Ahi tuna steaks, soy sauce, chopped green onions, sesame oil, fresh ginger, chile peppers, salt, toasted sesame seeds, toasted macadamia nuts, and either romaine lettuce or bok choy.