Ezekiel Kadner: "There is no American food. When we begin to list American foods, either we talk about regional things like lobster or shrimp Creole, or we talk about spaghetti and pizza and hot dogs...One could argue it's what makes us great. The fact that we don't have a cuisine is a measure of our democracy and of our ethnic heterogeneity."-- Sidney Mintz, AnthropologistThere are a few things that are truly American:PecansWild RiceCornTurkeySquash and PumpkinMaple SyrupCranberriesAccording to one site I visited (sourced below), the top 10 foods the Americas (both south, central and north) gave to the word are:AvocadoChili PepperChocolateCornPapayaPeanutPineapplePotatoTomatoVanillahttp://www.sallys-place.com/food/cuisines/us.htmhttp://www.frugalfun.com/amernatlfood.htmlhttp://whatscookingamerica.net/AmericanRegionalFoo...http://www.lifeintheusa.com/food/classic.htm...Show more
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