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  2. American cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American cuisine that have been blended with the methods of early Europeans to form the basis of what is now American cuisine. Nearly all regions and subregions of the present-day cuisine have roots in the foodways of Native Americans, who lived in tribes numbering in the thousands.

  3. List of food plants native to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Domesticated and cultivated in South America, Central America and Caribbean. Indian Potato - roots of two native species- Apios americana and Apios priceana; Jerusalem artichoke - specific species of sunflower with large, edible root. Lily Bulbs- several species in Lilium family; Oca - specific species of Oxalis, or Wood Sorrel with large ...

  4. Indigenous cuisine of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous cuisine of the Americas includes all cuisines and food practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.Contemporary Native peoples retain a varied culture of traditional foods, along with the addition of some post-contact foods that have become customary and even iconic of present-day Indigenous American social gatherings (for example, frybread).

  5. Cuisine of New England - Wikipedia

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    Bon Appetit magazine recognized Portland as the "2018 Restaurant City of the Year". [91] The city has the Portland Farmers Market, founded in 1768, and the city ranks as a top city for vegans and vegetarians. [92] The Francophone part of northern Maine in the St. John Valley has a lot of Acadian influences in their cuisine.

  6. Cuisine of the Midwestern United States - Wikipedia

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    Today, restaurants in Chicago's Greektown serve typical dishes like gyros and cheese saganaki. [ 14 ] Throughout the city there are many variations on classic sandwiches like the Chicago-style hot dog or club sandwiches served on bagels or other artisan breads like sourdough or brioche with complex spreads like aioli and piri piri sauce.

  7. Why do we eat ‘lucky’ black-eyed peas? In 1937, a Texan sold ...

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    It took Texas to make America swallow the idea of lucky New Year’s black-eyed peas. More than 85 years ago, in 1937, an East Texas promoter put the first national marketing campaign behind what ...

  8. Cuisine of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    You will find variations of these dishes in America and the Caribbean region." [69] German cuisine influenced the making of chicken and dumplings. German immigrants came to colonial America beginning in 1608 and helped to start the colony of Jamestown, Virginia and established settlements in the Shenandoah Valley. They brought their food ...

  9. Root vegetable - Wikipedia

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    Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans or animals as food. In agricultural and culinary terminology, the term applies to true roots such as taproots and tuberous roots as well as non-roots such as bulbs , corms , rhizomes , and stem tubers .