As the nation celebrates it;s 250t birthday ,it;s time to also celebrate the American cuisine. It's is the comfort food that not only we Yanks crave.The world also love our food too and considers it a big comfort.
What is American food exactly? It's a combination of both indigenous ingredients and international recipes. It;s succotash , a tasty combination of corn and Lima beans. Some home chefs add chopped bell peppers and tomatoes. The name comes from the Narragansett tribe's work for broken corn kernels You can add garlic and herbs to it. I usually like it plain wit just butter added.It;sa great side dish with nay meat from chicken to beef to pork and can easily be made for a Thanksgiving or Other holiday side. Surprisingly America's most comforting food ,meat loaf has it's origins in ancient Rome. yet it came over with German immigrants to Pennsylvania. They adopted European meat puddings to scrapple , a mix of pork and cornmeal. Modern meatloaf usually has chopped meat, eggs and breadcrumbs. There are variations that also add in chopped onion and ketchup. Many love it drowned in brown gravy with a side of homemade mashed potatoes.Another American classic comfort food is tomato soup. Everyone loves this ,especially on a cold fall or winter day. . It started in the MesoAmericas and found it's way to Spain where the Spanish turned it into gazpacho and then France where cream was probably added. It was mentioned in American cookery books in 1857 and Campbells turned it into a condensed easy to cook soup. The US Navy added grilled cheese to the dish during the Second World War.
What about that Yankee summer must have - ice cream. This ancient Mesopotamia sweet, also loved by empowers such as Nero is a US freezer must have. It's the Americans that elevated it and improved it.The first crank ice cream maker was manufactured by Nancy M. Johnson in 1943, This innovation eliminate hours or stirring to create a smooth creamy textured.African American inventor Alfred L.Cralie first patented te mechanical ice cream disher which was a precursor to the scoop. e waffle cone was first made at the St. Louis's World's Fair were waffles were rolled into cones to old ice cream scoops. The best ice cream dish the sundae was also inventedd ere wit several different towns claiming to be it's birthplace.It was created to avoid selling the ice cream on sundae law. In Two Rivers Wisconsin Edward Beaners first drizzled chocolate syrup on ice cream while in Ithica <new York Chester Platt first poured cherry syrup on vanilla ice cream.A local minister suggested the concoction be named after the day of the week it was made on. Nothing beats a sundae.Make it an American one wit piling blueberries and sliced strawberries on top of scoops of vanilla. You have to add chocolate syrup and wet walnuts too for the ultimate sundae experience. Top wit a huge puff of Reddi-Whip and the add a dusting of sprinkles or a cherry.
American food is just that. It reflects our heritage, and our tastes. It's fun and comforting all at once. It's America at its' best.
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