A Personal Record of American Food Culture
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Americans were combined with the recipes that came with. later immigrants from Europe to produce what we know. today as American food. ...
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A Personal Record of American Food Culture Page 1When we think of American food we tend to think interms of hamburgers and other fast foods or giant steaks.However as a nation founded by immigrants from aroundthe world the range and variety of American foods are asgreat as its ethnic diversity. Further the world tends tothink of the United States as a new country. Although ithas been just two hundred twenty eight years since theUnited States established itself as a nation we must not forgetthat people walked the land bridge from Asia during theperiod of 1200025000B.C. These people today knownas Native Americans had their own food culture based uponthe knowledge and wisdom of a very long history. It is saidthat nearly sixty percent of the products grown in the UnitedStates today agricultural giant that it is were introduced tothe original colonists by the Native Americans.When the colonists first arrived in the New World theknowledge of the land and resources learned from theNative Americans was indispensable to their survival.Thanksgiving one of the most important holidays in theUnited States today celebrates the assistance colonistsreceived from the Native Americans. Just as thesechiryori dishes served at New Years in Japan arebasically the same throughout the country Thanksgivingdishes generally include turkey cranberry sauce andsuccotash; all dishes that use ingredients indigenous toNorth America and introduced to the original colonists bythe Native Americans. Although there are many theoriesregarding the origins of Thanksgiving most widelybelieved among Americans is the account that thecolonists held a huge banquet with foods grown harvestedand prepared in the manner learned from the NativeAmericans. The banquet to which the Native Americanswere also invited was the colonists way of giving thanksfor all that they had learned and achieved in a land thatwas completely new to them.The foods and methods of preparation that the colonistslearned from the Native ...
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