Particular American foods

Wheat is the primary cereal grain. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by Native Americans and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American styles. Soul food, developed by African slaves, is popular around the South and among many African Americans elsewhere. Syncretic cuisines such as Louisiana creole, Cajun, and Tex-Mex are regionally important. Fried chicken, which combines Scottish and African American culinary traditions, is a national favorite. Iconic American dishes such as apple pie, pizza, and hamburgers derive from the recipes of various European immigrants. So-called French fries, Mexican dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are widely consumed.

Americans generally prefer coffee to tea. American liquors include bourbon and Tennessee whiskey, applejack, and Puerto Rican rum. The martini is the characteristic American cocktail.The average American consumes 81.6 liters of beer per year. American-style lagers, typified by the leading Budweiser brand, are light in body and flavor .In recent decades, wine production and consumption has increased substantially, with winemaking now a leading industry in California. Wine is often drunk before meals, substituting for cocktails. Aside from coffee, orange juice and homogenized, often fat-reduced cow's milk are typical breakfast beverages. Highly sweetened soft drinks are widely popular. Leading soft-drink producer Coca-Cola is the most recognized brand in the world, just ahead of McDonald's.

The most popular American foods:

· Apple Pie

· Brownies

· Buffalo meat (steaks and burgers)

· Buffalo Wings

· Cheeseburger

· Chicago-style pizza

· Chicken pot pie

· Chocolate chip cookies

· Clam Chowder

· Crabcake

· Cream cheese

· Doughnuts

· Fried chicken

· Grilled pizza

· Hamburgers

· Hot dogs

· Macaroni and cheese

· Pancake

o Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

· Pecan pie

· Potato Chips

· Pumpkin pie

· Shrimp & Grits

· Spam

· Thanksgiving Dinner (Roast Turkey, Cranberry sauce, etc.)

Vocabulary notes

Cuisine-кухня, кулинария

Recognisable-признаваемый

Superimpose-накладывать

Consume-потреблять

Quintessentiallу- наиболее типично

corn-кукуруза

beans-фасоль, бобы

derive-извлекать

salmon-лосось

substitutе-заменять

homogenized-гомогенизировать

beverages-напитки