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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we have to take into the account that American food is the food of the people that live here, and the traditions they brought.
Hence German, Italian, Chinese, etc cuisines are all present here.
I can go for brunch to Italian restaurant or to that new Chinese brunch restaurant that opened in DC.
The U.S. was still a young country when industrialization and mass produced food occurred, and hence did not have centuries of kids shelling walnuts from their own tress, picking cherries for syrups, making your own tomato sauce for the winter, making jams with grandma, butchering your own cow and pig and curing meats.
These traditions were present and still are present in the U.S. but only on farms and very few families are still living like that.
This is because of urbanization too.
My grandma was a farmer, as was my grandpa, and my country did not urbanize until late 60s and 70s. So, how can you compare completely different histories of food?[/quote]

[b]Why do Americans think[/b] other countries don't have varied cuisine? Best Italian in my life? Thailand.  Best French pastries and breads better than even France? South Korea.  This might shock Americans, but other countries in the world have so much variety of cuisines as well. It is the year 2024, as if the US has a monopoly on diverse food culture.  What a joke.  I can go to Thailand and have Russian, Turkish, Mexican, Italian, French, Thai, every type of Asian, and virtually everything in the world there too. And they'll do it better for 1/4th the price. The US does not have a monopoly on food diversity because it is a melting pot. [/quote]

We don't think about it at all[/quote]

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