This may sound like a weird question, but I'm making a chef build for my next character. I feel it best to ask this here, since most people here know a fair bit about the Elder Scrolls lore. Which race, out of those playable, is the most famous in terms of cuisine and cooking?

Breton or Imperial. High-Rock and Cyrodiil are the only provinces that have societies that would really appreciate high cuisine.

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Or the Altmer, I think they a high cuisine too.

Imperials, Nords try, Redguards & Orcs probably just eat whatever they kill while mer eat alchemy ingredients and Bretons eat the Imperials leftovers.

Really? Which more so? I would have thought the Altmer would have high cuisine.

I would have thought the Altmer would see food as a necessity more than a delight, considering their view on the Mundus and stuff. Just a guess though.

Breton makes the most sense to me, followed by redguard.

The chef in the Jerall View Inn in Bruma in Oblivion mentions "genuine Skyrim cuisine", so I'm sure the Nords aren't all bad with cooking. I wouldn't claim them to be the best ones though. I know of nothing that supports any one choice here.

You just don't get the feeling nords would mess around with fancy food. Bretons seem like the more thoughtful and artistic of the human races, and actually all races IMO. They just seem like they'd appreciate bothering to make fine food.