Searching foreign recipes in their native language then using Google Translate on the recipe (assuming you don't speak the language) has served me well in the p

Searching foreign recipes in their native language then using Google Translate on the recipe (assuming you don't speak the language) has served me well in the past. Some not-that-uncommon dishes are wildly different (and, sometimes, far better) from what you find searching in English. Often much fattier :-) Wikipedia can be helpful for translating the dish name. They'll either list the name directly, or you can switch to the version of the article in the dish's home language. Difficulty: this is less useful for Indian dishes because they'll almost always include ingredients an American won't have in even a stocked-for-Indian-dishes kitchen. Usually a great strategy for European dishes, at least, though.