How would you characterize American cuisine?!
How would you characterize American cuisine?
Answers:
Diversified, with many influences from all over the world.
varied, from many other parts of the world.
A "Melting Pot" of deliciousness.
Diner Foods and Fast Foods
It depends upon where in America you look.
The midwest favors Germanic, the northeast favors Italian, the southeast Creole and Cuban, the southwest Mexican, the West is eclectic mixes of all cuisines, the northwest favors American Indian and Japanese.
This is a broad brush description, but you will generally find spicier food in the southern regions and greasy meat and potato dishes in the colder regions in the north and northeastern sections. And of course lots of wonderful seafood dishes on all 3 coasts prepared in a variety of ways.
I've been all over the States and find a wide variety of foods from state to state as favorites. Most say the food in New Orleans is the best in the states. After living there for 3 years, I would tend to agree.
anything goes!
Big serving size!!!!!
Just like its People, diverse, tasty and not whats expected.
very varied.
even the dishes we get from other countries, we adapt to make them partly american.
(we also make up foods and say they're from another ethnic cuisine)
I'm reading a book right now called; "The Sex Life Of Food", by Bunny Crumpacker and it is a really great book. It really explains a lot about how humans and food are linked and how we have become emotionally involved with food. You should pick it up.
I will answer your question and say that American cuisine is a fusion of ethnic foods. Because the only way you can have an ethnic meal is to eat that meal from its place of origin. For example you can only have a real champagne from the Champagne region of France and anything else is a replica or derivative if you will of that Item from that region. Yes we have restaurants here in the States of who claim to be authentic restaurants however they are substituting the ingredients that were used for that dish from the region of its origin. (Do you follow what I'm getting at here) I'm not trying to confuse you or the conversation, I'm merely stating that Everything we call authentic here in the States is actually a derivative of authenticity.