Personally, I might go a bit more specific (maybe country or region). E.g. French cuisine is quite different than either German or Spanish, yet it still mystifies, somewhat, why the French can eat what they do without having all the health problems others would have...

I'm such an ethnic smorgasbord, I pretty much had to throw away the book and figure myself out. Fortunately that wasn't terribly difficult. (Pretty much classic carbo/choco-holic, with a few idiosyncrasies... )

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