United States cuisine | Wikipedia audio article
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United States cuisine
00:02:15 1 History
00:02:23 1.1 Pre-colonial cuisine
00:02:32 1.1.1 Seafood
00:03:31 1.1.2 Cooking methods
00:04:46 1.2 Colonial period
00:06:53 1.2.1 Common ingredients
00:08:20 1.2.1.1 Livestock and game
00:09:19 1.2.1.2 Fats and oils
00:10:00 1.2.1.3 Alcoholic drinks
00:10:58 1.2.1.4 Southern variations
00:11:54 1.3 Post-colonial cuisine
00:12:29 1.4 20th-century American farmhouse
00:15:57 1.5 Modern cuisine
00:16:22 1.5.1 Processed food
00:18:52 1.5.2 Ethnic influences
00:21:09 1.5.3 New American
00:21:42 2 Regional cuisines
00:22:12 2.1 Northeast
00:22:21 2.1.1 New England
00:31:36 2.1.2 Delaware Valley and Mid-Atlantic
00:46:52 2.2 Midwest
00:56:25 2.3 Southern United States
00:58:52 2.3.1 Early history
01:00:49 2.3.2 Common features
01:01:32 2.3.3 Desserts
01:02:31 2.3.4 Cajun cuisine
01:06:27 2.3.5 African American influences
01:07:40 2.3.6 Florida cuisine
01:11:26 2.3.7 Other small game
01:11:57 2.4 Cuisine in the West
01:12:47 2.4.1 Northwest
01:16:24 2.4.2 Southwest and Southern California
01:28:43 2.5 Pacific and Hawaiian cuisine
01:32:22 2.6 Common dishes found on a regional level
01:32:32 3 Ethnic and immigrant influence
01:35:42 3.1 Early ethnic influences
01:38:14 3.2 Later ethnic and immigrant influence
01:40:40 4 Notable American chefs
01:42:26 5 See also
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American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous Dutch and British cuisines. The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods. Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1890s–1920s, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles. A wave of celebrity chefs began with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels, such as the Food Network and Cooking Channel, in the late 20th century.
United States Regional Cuisine | Wikipedia audio article
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United States Regional Cuisine
00:02:15 1 History
00:02:23 1.1 Pre-colonial cuisine
00:02:32 1.1.1 Seafood
00:03:31 1.1.2 Cooking methods
00:04:46 1.2 Colonial period
00:06:53 1.2.1 Common ingredients
00:08:20 1.2.1.1 Livestock and game
00:09:19 1.2.1.2 Fats and oils
00:10:00 1.2.1.3 Alcoholic drinks
00:10:58 1.2.1.4 Southern variations
00:11:54 1.3 Post-colonial cuisine
00:12:29 1.4 20th-century American farmhouse
00:15:57 1.5 Modern cuisine
00:16:22 1.5.1 Processed food
00:18:52 1.5.2 Ethnic influences
00:21:09 1.5.3 New American
00:21:42 2 Regional cuisines
00:22:12 2.1 Northeast
00:22:21 2.1.1 New England
00:31:36 2.1.2 Delaware Valley and Mid-Atlantic
00:46:52 2.2 Midwest
00:56:25 2.3 Southern United States
00:58:52 2.3.1 Early history
01:00:49 2.3.2 Common features
01:01:32 2.3.3 Desserts
01:02:31 2.3.4 Cajun cuisine
01:06:27 2.3.5 African American influences
01:07:40 2.3.6 Florida cuisine
01:11:26 2.3.7 Other small game
01:11:57 2.4 Cuisine in the West
01:12:47 2.4.1 Northwest
01:16:24 2.4.2 Southwest and Southern California
01:28:43 2.5 Pacific and Hawaiian cuisine
01:32:22 2.6 Common dishes found on a regional level
01:32:32 3 Ethnic and immigrant influence
01:35:42 3.1 Early ethnic influences
01:38:14 3.2 Later ethnic and immigrant influence
01:40:40 4 Notable American chefs
01:42:26 5 See also
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SUMMARY
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American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous Dutch and British cuisines. The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods. Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1890s–1920s, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles. A wave of celebrity chefs began with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels, such as the Food Network and Cooking Channel, in the late 20th century.
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Laundry Business / Chief Gates on the Spot / Why the Chimes Rang
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.
El Salvador | Wikipedia audio article
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El Salvador
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El Salvador ( ( listen); Spanish: [el salβaˈðoɾ]), officially the Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador, literally Republic of The Savior), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. As of 2016, the country had a population of approximately 6.34 million.El Salvador was for centuries inhabited by several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca and Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However the Viceroyalty of Mexico had little or no influence in the daily affairs of the Central American isthmus, which would be colonized in 1524. In 1609 the area became the Captaincy General of Guatemala, from which El Salvador was part of until its independence from Spain, which took place in 1821, as part of the First Mexican Empire, then further seceded, as part of the Federal Republic of Central America, in 1823. When the Republic dissolved in 1841, El Salvador became a sovereign nation, then formed a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1895 to 1898.From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, El Salvador endured chronic political and economic instability characterized by coups, revolts, and a succession of authoritarian rulers. Persistent socioeconomic inequality and civil unrest culminated in the devastating Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992), which was fought between the military-led government and a coalition of left-wing guerrilla groups. The conflict ended with the Chapultepec Peace Accords. This negotiated settlement established a multiparty constitutional republic, which remains in place to this day.
El Salvador's economy has historically been dominated by agriculture, beginning with the indigo plant (añil in Spanish), the most important crop during the colonial period, and followed thereafter by coffee, which by the early 20th century accounted for 90 percent of export earnings. El Salvador has since reduced its dependence on coffee and embarked on diversifying the economy by opening up trade and financial links and expanding the manufacturing sector. The colón, the official currency of El Salvador since 1892, was replaced by the U.S. dollar in 2001.
As of 2010, El Salvador ranks 12th among Latin American countries in terms of the Human Development Index and fourth in Central America (behind Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize) due in part to ongoing rapid industrialisation. However, the country continues to struggle with high rates of poverty, inequality, and crime.