The most delicious meal you've ever had was what? Are the French, Italians or some other ethnic group THE BEST CHEFS? Why?

Different countries, different regions in those countries all have their own traditions and you choose to subscribe to them or not.  Best meals I have had were made by a friend of a late boyfriend's ex who cooked macrobiotically. Which I have tried to do since.  I watch TV cooking shows and enjoy them and get ideas from them but some of those restaurant chefs really believe in making things as complex as possible and everything is full of chicken stock and vinegar and cheese and eggs and sugar and wine that I bloat just thinking about it.  Some of them believe you have to jump through hoops to get a cabbage to taste like a cabbage. 

I make pretty simple meals for my husband and myself and mostly whole grains and fresh if possible vegetables.  Which we are pretty happy with. Sometimes he takes me to a restaurant as a change of pace and usually to get things we don't eat at home like certain kinds of fish.  We go most often to a place I guess I would describe as Tuscan Italian but mostly because it is close to our home.  Weekends I might make something more fancy but still it is more on the simple side - maybe fried brown rice with vegetables or shrimp or an hiziki roll or tempura or a broth bowl etc.  Some of the recipes I used to give on answerbag.