Recent Examples of taxonomy from the Web. 1  This question came courtesy of my son, who at 3-and-a-half, is a real underwater-creature taxonomy nerd. 2  Below, a taxonomy of the basest impulses on display.
Report Abuse. Continental cuisine means the foods of many different European countries, not just France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, but Germany, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Lichtenstein and many more countries. The recipes of these countries are often as different as day is from night.ontinental-from the European continent. This is from the days of British rule-where the recognized only two types of cuisine-British and mainland European.
American cuisine has been influenced by Europeans and Native Americans in its early history. Today, there are a number of foods that are commonly identified as American, such as hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, macaroni and cheese, and meat loaf. As American as apple pie has come to mean something that is authentically American.