When Did Foreign Food Start To Become Popular?!

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By "foreign" food, I'm guessing you're in the U.S., and you're thinking of the cuisines of cultures outside the U.S.?

If so, each wave of immigrants to the U.S. brought with them their own cuisines, and some aspects or dishes of theirs caught on (think Italian--like pizza, spaghetti, lasagna, etc). Other immigrant cuisines weren't that different from our own (Irish, even Eastern European and German though stroganoff did catch on, etc).
Mexican cuisine was probably next for the whole country (though popular much earlier in the Southwestern U.S.).

In the early 60's, I think, Julia Child began introducing a small percentage of Americans to "classic" French cooking and methods, but that didn't spread too far.

Starting in the 90's probably and certainly in the last 10 years, more immigration from Asian countries and especially the advent of really widespread mass communication (tv including cable tv, magazines, internet, etc), made the U.S. become more aware of other cultures and interested in all ethnic cuisines in general. Cooking as an interest or hobby has also become more common and adventurous in that time.

if you mean America then that would be in the 15th century as any person going there would have taken their own cuisine so it would-all be foreign and as immigrants kept going there throughout the years there was more and more foods that originated other country's that were taken there it is the same through out the world as food from other country's would appear to be exotic so people would want to try them instead of the mundane dishes from your own country but remember whet you see as a mundane dish others see it as exotic how ever if you mean england then i would have to say it would be over 2 thousand years or even more than that from the vikings saxons the angles jute3s romans Normans india china italy so many others as well

Chop Suey was pretty popular at my place when I was a little kid. A friend of ours would get it in the city when he went there and bring us some. I guess as foreign people immigrated their food choices came with them. Which in the US would have been around the turn of the century through the 1940s.

in the UK around 1960 when people started to travel . Spanish and Italian food were the first, then with the influx of Chinese people from Hongkong and India Indian and Chinese cuisine