The US has always been a food forward country. America has given the world great dishes and even greater inventions and innovations. This is what makes this country great.It's recipe.It's chef. Its' people who love a good dish.
Regular contributor Kim Severson wrote about all this in yesterday's New York Times Wednesday Food section. It starts with the indigenous tribes coming to the colonizer's help by swing tem how to use fish asferti;izer and introducing them to the Three Sisters corn, beans and squash to survive.Their johnny cakes, a mix of waterand corn helped many COlonial troops from starving. Of course there are and will be foreign influences in the cuisine. Baked Mac and cheese is one of the country's old recipe imports. Thanks to Tom Jefferson. James Hemings, half brother of Jefferson's wife Martha and brother of Sally was the first haute cuisine chef in the nation. He created baked Mac and cheese from the French macaroni pie, pasta cooked in milk and then baked with cheese.Throughout the centuries waves of immigrants brought such Americna classics as spaghetti, ots dogs, hamburgers and French fries. Today American can appreciate Kim chee and sushi. America hosted the first iimmigrant restaurants too. The Chinese brought their cuisine to the California Gold Rush in 1840.It was the Swiss-Italian brothers Pietro and Giovanni Delmonico who opened up the first fine dining watering, Delmonico' s in New York City['s Financlia District. Diners enjoyed steak Delmonico a tick cur basted in butter along with Oysters Rockefellar. Type were the first eatery to also promote women dining without any male escort.
This country is also the country of innovation. The first American cookbook was written by Amelia Simmons in the 1700;s. Yes there were plenty of British influences tere but there;s also cranberry sauce paired with turkey. and pumpkin pie Canned food came about in the 1840'with the first cannery opening in New York City. It brought fruits and veggies to cities and helped to preserve veggies during the winter months. The country also created the automated harvest in the 1850s.a decade later Cyrus McCormick created the automated reaper which can create arvests in fewer hours with lesser hands.This also created a global market for wheat wit America providing grain for France.The US also invented the refrigerated rail car. Packed with ice from frozen lakes it enabled meat packers like Swift and Armor to deliver goods from coast to coasrOf course America also was the first country to sell sliced bread.Otto Rothwedder created a machine that could slice and wrap bread in minutes which helped America;s housewives. Thanks to a great American authors, Upton Sinclair the country has the FDA. Major federal laws were enacted after his eye opening story that took place in Chicago;s meat packing industry.America also gave the world Cheetos, Mc Donald's and Coke. What would the world be without them.
America is the land if Great food and great inventions. The country represents what's best in diets . The country is the original influencer.
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