food preparation styles of Central, North, and South America
Wikipedia
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Cuisine of the Americas - Wikipedia
July 10, 2024 - The cuisine of the Americas is made up of a variety of food preparation styles. North American cuisine consists of foods native to or popular in countries of North America, such as Canadian cuisine, American cuisine, Mexican cuisine, and Central American cuisine.
Amazon
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Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions [A Cookbook]: Smithsonian American Indian, Divina, Fernando, Divina, Marlene: 9781580081191: Amazon.com: Books
Some of the specialties are: Fry Bread Turkey with Oaxacan Black Mole Wild Rice and Corn Fritters Venison with Juniper and Wild Huckleberry Sauce Chilean-Style Avocado and Shrimp Salad To complement the recipes, Foods of the Americas also features nine illustrated short essays by American Indian writers who offer personal insights into a variety of indigenous food traditions.
What are some "American" foods ?
My short answer is usually "whatever makes a food-purist cry". More on reddit.com
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February 1, 2024What did Europeans eat before discovery of Americas?
Strawberries are actually native to Europe. The modern variaties are based on hybrids from South America. The native European species were edible though and were eaten. Many fruits were present in Europe. The Romans spread grapes and likely apples and pears. Brambles and raspberries, currants and many more are naturally found in European woods. Quinces, medlars etc. also grew. Many of these can be stored or dried quite well. Cabbage, onions, peas and broadbeans, beets, many radish like plants, other greens, carrots and relatives of them are also all native and were eaten in some capacity. Many common garden weeds are native to Europe and edible. Dandelions, stinging nettles etc. More on reddit.com
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January 19, 2022Food in North America pre-colonization?
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October 5, 2021What's the MOST American food?
Corn. It originated in the Americas, was eaten by Native Americans, was hybridized into the modern corn by US Americans, and is grown all over the US.
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November 3, 2013Videos
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Wikipedia
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Indigenous cuisine of the Americas - Wikipedia
3 days ago - Southeastern Native Americans traditionally supplement their diets with meat from hunting native game. Venison is a vital staple meat, due to the abundance of white-tailed deer in the region. Rabbits, squirrels, opossums, and raccoons are also common. Although it may have been secondary to game hunting, fishing is also an important food source; many peoples lived near rivers and other consistent sources of fish.
Foodwise
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10 Foods Native to the Americas : Foodwise
November 1, 2024 - To learn more about the pre-colonial roots of these foods, read What It Means to Decolonize Your Diet. As one of the “Three Sisters,” three main agricultural crops native to North America (along with beans and corn), squash varieties come in different shapes and sizes.
Britannica
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18 Food Crops Developed in the Americas | Britannica
December 4, 2025 - The exact origin of cacao (the source of chocolate) is debated, but it may have been domesticated in South America and then introduced to the Maya some 1,500 years ago. Also known as manioc or yuca, cassava was likely domesticated 8,000–10,000 years ago in southern Brazil by ancient Amazonian peoples. Chia was widely cultivated in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and was an important food to Aztecs.
TasteAtlas
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Top 100 American Foods - TasteAtlas
3 days ago - And though there are many debates about the origin of this steak, one thing can be certain: Delmonico steak is synonymous with the best piece of meat you can get when you walk into a restaurant. ... Delmonico's (United States of America), Michael Jordan's Steak House (United States of America), Mooo Restaurant (United States of America), View all
Taste of Home
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The 93 Most American Recipes Ever | Taste of Home
October 20, 2025 - We Americans love our burgers, taco salad and good ol' apple pie. But what's on the menu in your neck of the woods? We crossed the country to find the most American recipes of all time.
TasteAtlas
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Top 100 North American Foods - TasteAtlas
4 weeks ago - The famous American author and chef Rick Bayless grouped antojitos according to the one element present in all antojitos – corn masa, and in the end, he was left with 8 types of antojitos: tamales, tostadas, tacos, sopes, gorditas, quesadillas, enchiladas, and chilaquiles. Regardless of the classifications, antojitos are one of the staples of Mexican food, and can be consumed as an appetizer, a snack, or as a full meal when eating more than a couple of these delicious "little cravings."
PBS
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Native Food – Food that Changed the World | Native America | PBS
September 18, 2023 - Dishes such as roast turkey, candied yam, and mashed potatoes are the modern-day equivalent of crops cultivated for human consumption centuries ago by Indigenous people. Today, Native chefs and home cooks are working to bring back the traditional ...
Reddit
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r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit: What are some "American" foods ?
February 1, 2024 -
So this is a strange question that I asked myself a while ago when I saw an American ask the same thing in r/AskAGerman. To explain a bit further: Of course I know about Steaks in Texas and Pizza in NYC. But for me it feels like most of these are imported by the nature of the US as a young country based of immigration. Of course there is something to be said for local versions of these dishes like Chicago Deep Dish Pizza but aside from these variations the only thing I can think of is pemmican from the native American tribes and popcorn. I am sure I am missing loads of cool meals so I am looking forward to your answers ^
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I hate to break it to you, but many of the foods you associate with a cuisine were imported or influenced by other cultures. Tomatoes are from the Americas, and Italian tomato sauce only just started being cooked in parts of Italy a couple hundred years ago. Pizza itself is based on Middle Eastern flatbread. Similarly, red peppers, so famous in much of Chinese cuisine, were imported there a few hundred years earlier from the Americas.
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Biscuits and gravy. Grits. Shrimp and grits. Breakfast sausage (different spices than a lot of other types of sausage). BBQ. Hoe cake. Blackeyed peas. Collard greens. Ham hocks. Hop n John. Fried chicken. Chicken fried steak. Cornbread dressing. Banana pudding. Pecan pie. Pumpkin pie. Sweet potato pie. Hummingbird cake.
Cook Unity
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What is American food? Origins, influences, and iconic meals
Explore the history, cultural influences, and iconic regional American foods that define American cuisine—from Native dishes to modern fusion favorites.
Tasting Table
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26 Native American Foods You Should Try At Least Once - Tasting Table
February 19, 2025 - Jerkies, salt-cured meats, and similar products are so universal for many reasons, such as the seasonal availability of animals, long winters without plant-based foods, and the abundance of perishable meat needed to be preserved once an animal has been killed. In Native American communities, wild animals like venison, bison, salmon, and turkey have been dried and preserved in such a manner.
Food Tank
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20 Native North American Foods with Stories to Tell – Food Tank
July 8, 2020 - Home » Agriculture » 20 Native North American Foods with Stories to Tell ... Indigenous and traditional crops are an important source of food and fiber for people around the globe. Often these crops are resilient to pests and disease or can tolerate high temperatures, drought, or flooding.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
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Native Life and Food: Food Is More Than Just What We Eat | Helpful Handout Educator Resource
Along with potatoes, many other foods—including corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, peppers, tomatoes, yams, peanuts, wild rice, chocolate, pineapples, avocados, papayas, pecans, strawberries, cranberries, and blueberries, to name a few, are indigenous to the Americas.
Cook Unity
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The ultimate guide to American cuisine
July 11, 2025 - What is American cuisine? Dive into its regional roots, immigrant influences, and modern takes—with chef-crafted dishes you can try at home.
Reddit
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r/AskEurope on Reddit: What did Europeans eat before discovery of Americas?
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I have been thinking ... potatoes, tomatoes, corn, pepers, vanilla, pumpkins, beans, sunflower, strowberries, pineapple, avocado, sweet potatos ... all of it originates from Americas.
I am wondering what Europeans ate prior to discovering Americas. Do we know anything about European cusines before that times.
I imagine our ancestors ate a lot of cereals and dumplings. Do you know any dishes/recipies?
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Strawberries are actually native to Europe. The modern variaties are based on hybrids from South America. The native European species were edible though and were eaten. Many fruits were present in Europe. The Romans spread grapes and likely apples and pears. Brambles and raspberries, currants and many more are naturally found in European woods. Quinces, medlars etc. also grew. Many of these can be stored or dried quite well. Cabbage, onions, peas and broadbeans, beets, many radish like plants, other greens, carrots and relatives of them are also all native and were eaten in some capacity. Many common garden weeds are native to Europe and edible. Dandelions, stinging nettles etc.
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Hello, trained historian here, who worked extensively with the medieval era. So, what did old-timey people eat? In Denmark, we're mainly talking about a diet without much meat. Only the richest nobles could afford to eat meat dishes every day, and for the vast majority of the population, meat-focused dishes was a luxury, largely reserved the major holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. Ofc. meat was eaten, but not in the same style and context as today. It was mainly dried, smoked, or preserved in other ways. It wasn't a fresh roast or piece of steak. Contrary to nowadays, beef and mutton was, for a long time, the main eating animal in Denmark, before pork took over, pork being regarded as a luxury in medieval times. Poultry wasn't really viable, not even for the richest, outside of special occasions. The only widely available meat, was fish. Particularly herring, which the Danish belts floweth over with, so much so that the main income for the Danish state for a long time, was taxing the Scanian herring-markets. It was crazy how much herring was pulled from the debts. When the small silver suckers stupidly migrated through Øresund, you could practically pick them out of the water with your bare hands. So, if meat was off the table, bar at holidays, what else did people eat? Ofc. fish, but also porridge from barley, or oats if you were fancy. The first price however, was cabbage. Cabbage was so important in medieval Danish cuisine, that the oldest Danish word for garden is kålgård, meaning "cabbage plot." Peas were also extremely important to Danish cuisine, in multiple forms, but not the modern green ones, most people think of... Mainly the hard yellow and grey ones, that were dried and needed to be boiled or stewed for a long time to be edible. Ofc. there was also things like bread and such. Onion and garlic were known to be used as sources of flavour, since spices weren't a thing most people had access to. Various fruits, apples and plums and such, were also popular, particularly the apple, with many of even the poorest farms having an apple tree.
Reddit
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r/AskFoodHistorians on Reddit: Food in North America pre-colonization?
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What did food in North America look like before European colonization? Are there any preserved recipes or cooking techniques?
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Check out America's First Cuisines by Sophie D. Coe. It's mainly about Prehispanic Mesoamerica and Peruvian cuisine. Basically, lots of corn. In Mesoamerica, most people mostly ate corn gruel (atole) flavored with chili, salt, beans, tomatoes, etc for the majority of their calories (just about everyone in the world ate gruel and simple carbs for most of their meals at the time). You won't find any recipes, but there are descriptions of feasts, and certain things like tamales, atole, and tortillas are made the same way (though there were a wider variety of all of these things). Something like a taco with guacamole and turkey meat (or any combination of sauces/meats made of Prehispanic ingredients) could easily have been found in a market in Tenochtitlan. Here's a list of popular street foods from Sahagun, a priest who wrote an ethnology of the Nahua shortly after the Conquest: "He sells meat tamales; turkey meat packets; plain tamales; tamales cooked in an earth oven; those cooked in an olla...grains of maize with chile, tamales with chile...fish tamales, fish with grains of maize, frog tamales, frog with grains of maize, axolotl with grains of maize, axolotl tamales, tamales with grains of maize, mushrooms with grains of maize, tuna cactus with grains of maize, rabbit tamales, rabbit with grains of maize, pocket gopher tamales: tasty--tasty, very tasty...Where [it is] tasty, [it has] chile, salt, tomates, squash seeds: shredded, crumbled, juiced. He sells tamales of maize softened in wood ashes, the water of tamales, tamales of maize softened in lime--narrow tamales, fruit tamales, cooked bean tamales,; cooked beans with grains of maize, cracked beans with grains of maize; broke, cracked grains of maize. [He sells] salted wide tamales, tamales bound up on top, [with] grains of maize thrown in; crumbled, pounded tamales; spotted tamales, pointed tamales, white fruit tamales, red fruit tamales, turkey egg tamales, turkey eggs with grains of maize; tamales of tender maize, tamales of green maize, brick-shaped tamales, braised ones; plain tamales, honey tamales, bee tamales, tamales with grains of maize, squash tamales, crumbled tamales, maize flower tamales. The bad food seller [is] he who sells filthy tamales, discolored tamales--broken, tasteless, quite tasteless, inedible, frightening, deceiving; tamales made of chaff, swollen tamales, spoiled tamales, foul tamales--sticky, gummy; old tamales, cold tamales-- dirty and sour, very sour, exceedingly sour, stinking. The food seller sells tortillas which [are] thick, thickish, thick overall, extremely thick; he sells thin [ones]--thin tortillas, stretch-out tortillas,; disclike, straight...with shelled beans, cooked shelled beans, uncooked shelled beans; with shelled beans mashed; chile with maize, tortillas with meat and grains of maize, folded...with chile--chile wrapped, gathered in the hand; ashen tortillas, washed tortillas. He sells folded tortillas, thick tortillas, coarse tortillas. He sells tortillas with turkey eggs, tortillas made with honey, pressed ones, glove-shaped tortillas, plain tortillas, assorted ones, braised ones, sweet tortillas, amaranth seed tortillas, squash tortillas, green maize tortillas, brick-shaped tortillas, tuna cactus tortillas; broken, crumbled, old tortillas; cold tortillas, toasted ones, dried tortillas, stinking tortillas. He sells foods sauces, hot sauces; fried [food], olla-cooked [food], juices, sauces of juices, shredded [food] with chile, with squash seeds, with tomatoes, with smoked chile, with hot chile, with yellow chile, with mild red chile sauce, yellow chile sauce, hot chile sauce, with "bird excrement" sauce, sauce of smoked chile, heated [sauces], bean sauce; [he sells] toasted beans, cooked beans, mushroom sauce, sauce of small squash, sauce of large tomatoes, sauce of ordinary tomatoes, sauce of various kinds of sour herbs, avocado sauce."
Food Timeline
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The Food Timeline--USA food history sources
Nearly all of today's popular U.S.A foods (apple pie, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, tacos, chocolate, jelly beans, ice cream, steak, potato salad, watermelons) originated in other countries. Their ingredients and recipes were introduced to our shores by colonists, settlers, and immigrants.
Insight Vacations
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Traditional South American food: top 20 dishes you need to try
August 21, 2025 - Palm oil, peanuts, and okra became staples that shaped much of South America’s coastal cuisine. Made from cornmeal, these versatile rounds can be grilled, fried, or baked. Stuff them with cheese, shredded chicken, or beans for a snack or meal that’s equal parts comfort and popular street food.
Britannica Education
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18 Food Crops Developed in the Americas - Britannica Education Blog
November 2, 2022 - The origin of cacao (the source of chocolate) is debated, but it may have been domesticated in South America and then introduced to the Maya 1,500 years ago. Also known as manioc or yuca, cassava was likely domesticated 8,000–10,000 years ago in southern Brazil by ancient Amazonian peoples. Chia was widely cultivated in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and was an essential food for Aztecs.