American cuisine
the bad and good

 

American cuisine
minus and pluses

Split personalities

American cuisine has both a dull and exciting  side:

Dull = Fast foods
and overly processed
grocery-store foods
Exciting = Regional and
ethnic cooking - and steaks

Three great things
about American cuisine

Regional and ethnic cooking

Click blue links to learn my candid tips about them:

California

Cowboy + Pioneer

Creole & Cajun

Hawaiian

Native American

New England

Penn Dutch + Midwest farm

Soul Food

Southern

Southwestern

Tex Mex + New York Ethnic

Innovation

American cuisine is the most innovative major cuisine on our planet. This is not because Americans cooks are naturally more creative than their counterparts abroad. They're not. A prime reason is the nation's cuisine is relatively new. It is not as encumbered by ironbound culinary rules as in, say, the French and Chinese cuisines. The Americans have more freedom to experiment.

This has been particularly true with the regional Southwestern, Californian, and Hawaiian cuisines.

Land of plenty

America has so much land suitable for farming that it could support twice its population.

The arable land that could be used for agriculture is not wasted. Much of it is used by the cattle industry (which requires extensive grazing land). This has allowed meat eating to become a significant factor in American cuisine.

Quick links

America's 7 most famous
regional cuisines

California
Creole & Cajun
Hawaiian
New England
Soul Food
Southern
Southwestern

Also renowned

Cowboy
New York Ethnic
Midwest farm
Native American
Penn Dutch / Amish
Pioneer
Tex Mex

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