Why are so relatively few countries/cultures famous worldwide for their cuisine?

Question

I mean, nobody says “Let’s go out for Austrian” or “Let’s pick up some Botswanan on the way home”

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Answer 1

A handful of countries had global colonial empires, and/or enjoyed enough wealth to treat food as art, had a wide variety of local ingredients to diversify their food, enjoy global popularity as destinations for tourists, had waves of emigrants that took their food culture with them.