national dish
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culinary dish that is strongly associated with a particular country
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Encyclopedic overview
A type of pizza (pizza margherita). A national dish is a culinary dish that is strongly associated with a particular country. A dish can be considered a national dish for a variety of reasons:
It is a staple food, made from a selection of locally available foodstuffs that can be prepared in a distinctive way, such as fruits de mer, served along the west coast of France.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “national dish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.