If you're invited to an American dinner, don't expect to see burgers and hot dogs on the table. The hostess of the house will certainly want to show off the traditional dishes.
American cuisine is a flavors fair where every consumer will find a dish to their liking. There are beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes - the heritage of the Indians. Southerners are treated to mouth-watering barbecue and buckwheat pancakes. Residents of the southwestern part of the country prefer Mexican fajitas and tacos, while the Midwest loves Italian ravioli and Chicago pizza.
As you already understood, Americans living in different states have different taste preferences. But hardly anyone will refuse the fragrant and hearty jambalaya, which is prepared in Louisiana. This dish successfully combines rice, ham and spicy sausages. It is believed that the name of the dish comes from the French word jambon (ham). In some restaurants, chefs substitute fish or seafood for ham.
New england
American New England, a region in the northeast of the country, delights gourmets with fish and seafood. Previously, aristocrats from the Old World came here specially to feast on spicy oysters. And now everyone is delighted with the local lobsters, which, by the way, are much cheaper than the Mediterranean ones. It is noteworthy that local cod is more expensive than salmon. It is so fresh and tasty that it does not require any special culinary treatment: it is enough to stew the fish slightly.
The famous New England dish is chowder. Previously, this thick stew was cooked on ships. The soup included shells (a delicacy for other regions) or fish, bacon, vegetables, cream, butter, and spices. The finished chowder was sprinkled with crumbled crackers - there were always plenty of them in the dry ration of sailors. Now the chowder is an integral part of the cuisine of all Americans. Each state of the country has its own recipe for this dish: somewhere corn or chili is added to the soup, someone uses tomatoes or broth instead of cream, and some chefs prefer to replace shells with more fish.
desserts
Local desserts such as chocolate brownies, cheesecakes and muffins are hard to resist. By the way, the latter can be considered correct only if they fit in the palm of your hand. And the country also loves marshmallows - the same marshmallow that young scouts roast at the stake in American films. From heating, the product swells and becomes viscous. Sliced marshmallows are added to salads, desserts and hot chocolate. And if you put toasted marshmallows between two crackers, smeared with chocolate, you get a smores sandwich.
Holidays
There are days when every American family serves the same food. For Thanksgiving, a huge stuffed turkey appears on the tables. Culinary experts with limitless imagination prepare indutritsa - a matryoshka dish, for which a chicken stuffed with melted cheese is placed in a duck, and then in a turkey. They say it turns out great! Christmas is greeted with bread pudding, apple pie and holiday cookies. And on Independence Day, Americans take to the streets and barbecue meat, fish, chicken or vegetables.
