American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States. It has been significantly influenced by Europeans, Indigenous Americans, Africans, Latin Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and many other cultures and traditions. Principal influences on American cuisine are European, Native American, soul food, regional heritages including Cajun, Louisiana Creole, Pennsylvania Dutch, Mormon foodways, Texan, Tex-Mex, New Mexican, and Tlingit, and the cuisines of immigrant groups such as Chinese American, Italian American, Jewish American, Greek American and Mexican American. The large size of America and its long history of immigration have created an especially diverse cuisine that varies by region.
Diorama of Iroquois planting the "Three Sister" crops; squash, maize and climbing beans
Blue crab was used on the eastern and southern coast of what is now the U.S. mainland.
Roast turkey with gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, sweet and sour cod, steamed rice, achara (pickled green papaya relish), leche flan, pig in a blanket and apple crisp.
A New England clam bake consists of various steamed shellfish.
Cajun cuisine is a style of cooking developed by the Cajun–Acadians who were deported from Acadia to Louisiana during the 18th century and who incorporated West African, French and Spanish cooking techniques into their original cuisine.
Gumbo, the state dish of Louisiana, prepared with seafood in a Cajun style.
Cornbread is a staple Cajun starch.
Cajun woman reaching for strings of garlic suspended from rafters. Near Crowley, Louisiana, 1938.
Boudin that has been smoked
