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AMERICAN FOOD
The French are famous for their sauces, the Italians praised for their pasta, the
Germans celebrated for their sausages, but is there anything unique to eat in the
United States? When you look closer, you’ll find that there’s nothing quite as
unique as American food. Because the United States is made up mostly of
immigrants, there is an amazing variety of foods there. The United States is a
vast country influenced by many countries and climates, and the traditional food
of one area is often totally unlike that of another. New Mexico and
Massachusetts are good examples of states that have very different, traditional
foods.
To understand and appreciate the food in any region, it often helps to know
the area’s history. For example, New Mexico was once the home of the Pueblo
Indians who lived in villages and grew native crops such as corn, beans,
pumpkins and squash. Later, Spanish settlers arrived in this area. These two
groups exchanged ideas and customs and created a special cuisine.
New Mexican meals make much use of corn, which is served in different
ways — baked, fresh, blended into soups and sauces, mixed into salads with
other vegetables, especially red and green peppers. In the markets of New
Mexico you can still find chicos — the sun-dried grains of roast sweet corn.
When they are boiled they taste almost like fresh corn. Many recipes also
contain pine nuts — the small sweet seeds of the southwestern pine tree, once
the main food in the Pueblo diet.
A Spanish influence can be found in the sweet, anise-flavored cookies sold in
the New Mexican bakeries. They are prepared much like they were made in the
kitchens of 7 century Spain for the Christmas feast.
Some traditional foods of New Mexico that show both native American and
Spanish traditions include enchiladas (corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, onions,
tomatoes and chilies, and sometimes chicken or beef), black beans, hot and
spicy salsa (an uncooked vegetable sauce).
Take a trip to Massachusetts, however, and you’ll never find these meals in its
list of traditional food. Influenced by the cold climate and the English-speaking
people who settled there, the New English kitchen is characterized by a variety
of soups and stews, and meat that is roasted for hours in the oven. Potatoes,
carrots and turnips were popular because these root vegetables grew well in the
region and could be stored all winter long in the days before supermarkets and
refrigerators. English puddings and pies are traditional desserts rather than the
fresh fruit you would be served in the southwest.
Whereas beef and chicken appear in many New Mexican recipes, in
Massachusetts fish is very popular because of the nearby seacoast. New England
is famous for its lobsters, cod, fish cakes and many other foods containing sea
products. English herbs and soft spices, used in New England dishes, would
probably taste rather bland to people accustomed to hot and spicy New Mexican
food.
Each region of the United States is unique. Louisiana has much French
inf1uence. Germans live in Midwest. Travelling around America, a tourist has
the opportunity not only to visit different places, but also to taste a variety of
foods. Some may be very different. Others will taste just like home.