American Food Influence

There have been many influences on the food that has developed in America. Native Americans take credit for making corn a huge ingredient in the national diet. People who traveled from china, Italy, and Africa all contributed to the foods that Americans eat every day. As new waves of immigrants came to America, new waves of food were brought in creating a diverse and unique food for Americans. There is an assumption from all around the world assume that Americans eat only hamburgers and hotdogs but we also love many other kinds of food as well. Many American meals are credited to “the arrival on these shores of immigrants” who were able to combine their ways and talents with the American day-to-day life (Rosengarten 216).

The Native Americans that were first to inhabit the lands of America were never in a stable position to build a cuisine. There was no way for these Native Americans to be able to

Chinese people threw together the little ingredients that they had access to, meat and vegetables, and made “chop suey” (Rosengarten 220).The wave of immigrants that came through at this time were Italians from Naples and was on Ellis Island. There they went into Manhattan where they tried to duplicate the same food from their homeland. The Italian-American cuisine used dried herbs, more sauce, and more meat to compensate for the lack of fresh original ingredients that were used from their homeland. The 20th century saw the arrival of many immigrant groups bringing many ethnic cuisines into everyday life. Beyond Europe, foods from all around the world have made their way onto the American menu. An example is a way that pizza parlors made its way into America in the past to how sushi restaurants have traveled here in the present. The food that is in America is all in this “melting pot factor” that always comes out as American food (Rosengarten