American Cuisine Cuisine of the United States The

American Cuisine

Cuisine of the United States The cuisine of the United States refers to food preparation originating from the _________________. European colonization of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of _______________________

Pre-Colonial Period History _______in the United States originated with the Native Americans, who often ate cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring , halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast. _______– is the Native Americans off the Northwest coast and who hunted the whale, and used for their meat and oil. Cooking methods Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American Cuisine. ___________- is used directly over the fire, developed by the anthropologist.

Kitchen Utensils ____________ Is used directly over the fire, developed by the anthropologist. ____________ Was created by Southwestern United States called Hornos to bake items such as cornmeal breads, and in other parts of America, made ovens of dug pits.

Colonial period When the colonists came to Virginia, Massachusetts , or any of the other English colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America, their initial attempts at survival included ____________________ The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy One of the __________ that proliferated in the colonies, written by Hannah Glasse.

Common ingredients The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Local cuisine patterns had established by the ____________ Livestock and game Commonly hunted game ____________________________ The larger muscles of the animals were roasted and served with ___________, while the other smaller portions went into __________________________

Common ingredients Fats and Oil A number of fats and oils made from _________ served to cook much of the colonial foods. Alcoholic drinks Prior to the Revolution ____________consumed large quantities of _____________, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items.

cuisine During the 18 th and 19 th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. cuisine During the ____________ (1890 s– 1920 s) food production and presentation became more industrialized.

Regional cuisines Given the United States' large size, numerous regions each have their own ___________, all quite diverse. New England is a Northeastern region of the United States, including the six states of • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5. • 6.

Regional cuisines ___________cuisine ____________regional cuisine covers everything from wokcharred ahi tuna, opaka (snapper) with passion fruit, to Hawaiian islandraised lamb, beef and aquaculture products such as Molokai shrimp. _____________cuisine covers everything from barbecue to the Chicago-style hot dog.

Regional cuisines The cuisine of the _____________has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Cooking in the ______________gets influence from Native American and Mexican cultures, and other European settlers into the part of the country.

Ethnic and immigrant influence The demand for ethnic foods in the United States reflects the nation's changing ________ as well as its development over time. Early ethnic influences While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous __________________, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18 th and 19 th centuries unto the present.

influence Later ethnic and immigrant influence Mass migrations of immigrants to the United States came in several waves. Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from ____________in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States;

Notable American chefs have been influential both in the food industry and in popular culture. An important 19 th Century American chef was Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City. The first generation of television chefs such as Robert Carrier and Julia Child tended to concentrate on cooking based primarily on_____________________