Best cuisines (FINAL VERSION): 

1) North Indian / Pakistani
2) Greek
3) Persian
4) Chinese (Szechuan)
5) Mexican

Honorable mentions: Italian, Japanese, Ethiopian, Lebanese/Palestinian, Jamaican, Peruvian, South Indian (Tamil), Vietnamese, Turkish, Thai.

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depends on how you define “best cuisine”: is it food you would want as a hypothetical “final meal” or a cuisine that you would enjoy the most if you couldn’t have any other