What are food patterns based on culture in:?!

What are food patterns based on culture in:?

native american, southern us, mexican, puerto rican, middle eastern, chinese, japanese, italian, northern and western european, central european, indian, thai, vietnamese, laotian, cambodian? and how about the jewish, roman catholic, eastern orthodox, seventh day adventist, mormon (latter day saints), islamic, hindu, vegetarians (vegan diet), zen-macrobiotic diet? pls help.. also is cuisine and food pattern similar? im confused

This is an enormous question, I can only attempt to give guiding principles rather than for each individual culture or religion you list.
Food patterns originate in climate and topography, which determine what foods grow in a particular location, as well as what keeps well (refrigeration is a relatively recent invention) or suits the climate. So for example, Mediterranean countries with mountainous terrain grew olive trees, and olive oil is the primary cooking fat, while northern European countries have more grazing land for cows, so they use butter. (These patterns emerged before the days of easy transport and globalisation.) People in cold countries want more fat and stodge to keep them warm, people in hot countries prefer lighter foods such as salads and often, spicy food to make them sweat, which is cooling (e.g. Mexico, India). Of course these cultural patterns can change with foreign influences, sometimes quite considerably, so the Irish came to rely on potato (from the New World) as a staple, and one cannot now imagine what Italian cuisine was like before the tomato was brought back by Columbus.
Religious dietary restrictions are often based on their holy scriptures, e.g. Bible and Koran injunction against pork and unbled meat, which in turn may have had very sensible practical reasons (pigs often had a parasite). Sometimes this is a narrow interpretation of a single verse, e.g. Seventh Day Adventists base their vegetarianism on Genesis 1:29, and ignore Genesis 9:3 and many dietary rules in Leviticus (but in fairness the Genesis 1 rule was the original one). Often human tradition has added to this, e.g. fish on Friday for Catholics, no meat or dairy while 'fasting' for Eastern Orthodox, neither of which are rules in the Bible; this may have been a way for the clergy to exercise control over the populace (Matthew 23:4). Sometimes dietary restrictions are a badge of uniqueness to set a particular group apart from others, e.g. the totem animal of Native Americans and Australian Aborigenes, the refusal to eat blood by Jehovah's Witnesses and Jews (kosher). Some have explicit aims to keep their followers healthy by keeping the body (='temple of the soul') undefiled with tobacco, alcohol etc. Some religious groups or simply individuals seek to show compassion for other living creatures (the various levels of vegetarianism including veganism). Sometimes the rules are a test of faith, starting with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, see also http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...
In countries where one single religion is dominant, the religious rules blend with the cultural patterns.
Hope this helps.