Aged cheeses are common throughout the Caucasus and Middle East, as is bread. Sausages are made practically everywhere. Truffles are found throughout the Middle East and China, just not the specific European kind.
France is just an extension of Mediterranean cooking, maybe with milder flavors due to the climate.
most French/South European things aren't unique to Europe but rather pan-Mediterranean, and if you subtract them from the equation there's literally nothing that defines European cuisine. Other than lingonberries
Aged cheeses are common throughout the Caucasus and Middle East, as is bread. Sausages are made practically everywhere. Truffles are found throughout the Middle East and China, just not the specific European kind.
France is just an extension of Mediterranean cooking, maybe with milder flavors due to the climate.
most French/South European things aren't unique to Europe but rather pan-Mediterranean, and if you subtract them from the equation there's literally nothing that defines European cuisine. Other than lingonberries
Mediterranean food is great though. Thus so is the French-specific incarnation of it as you say