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Latin American countries are so different between I don't agree with have a general article. For example people from Uruguay haven't taste Mexican food in thir entire life. And Mexicans haven't taste Uruguya food either.

Article contains too much Mexican information.

Setting a "Latin American cuisine" article is supposed to add a brief description of the cuisines of the different regions of Latin America.

Yet for the most part, the article contains more information about Mexico than the other actual regions of Latin America.

I believe the last part of the article should include more about Central American cuisine (Including some of Mexico) rather than making it only Mexico.

I agree totally. Additionally, there's a whole paragraph about Spanish tortillas, even though it is at no point argued that these are part of Latin American cuisine. There's nothing on the Caribbean countries of Latin America in the article, either, and it doesn't seem to hang together with respect to commonalities of the cuisines, such as frequently emphasizing the same staples in similar combinations: for example, I can't speak to South America, but the whole Mesoamerica region has beans-and-rice combination dishes, such as Honduran casamiento. Similarly, the article on pupusas (a Salvadoran dish) recognizes its common ground with Venezuelan and Colombian arepas and Mexican gorditas. The discussion of New Mexican cuisine likewise overlooks the confusion of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisines. Lawikitejana 21:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article is completely biased on Mexico. For a "Latin American cuisine" article, this is extremely Mexican PoV'd. A Latin American myself, I find this quite insulting. Mexico isn't Latin America, and that's the end to that. I'm going to try to edit this thread to a fairer view, but I'm not a proffesional on the matter; therefore I would need--and appreciate--help from a lot of other people that know of the matter. MarshalN20 00:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, somewhat. Tortillas may be typical food in some areas but i think it should be removed. Each country should have a section, preferably 1-3 paragraphs explaining their main staple, national dish and maybe the range of variety. -- LaNicoya •Talk• 01:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll continue with the editing here. Please, if anybody sees something that is wrong, fix it. I'm only trying to make the article better, not worse. One of the first things I'm going to do is do away with the Tortillas section that makes no sense to be here.MarshalN20 13:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you did a great job so far on the article. It was really nice to add the different influences in the cusine of Latin America. -- LaNicoya •Talk• 19:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. I'll keep improving the article, perhaps I'll add more pictures of dishes (To give some flavor to topic). I can't think of many more ideas at the moment other than keep expanding what we have; so any new idea could really come in handy.MarshalN20 01:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um...What does Latin American cuisine have to do with the racial makeup of the countries? For those that don't know Im referring to the map which I believe is irrelevant. A more relevant map might be one which simply portrays Latin American countries not their demographics.goolag 03:42, 20 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.189.199.241 (talk) [reply]