Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's United States of America (USA) recipes, part of the Americas. This page provides links to all the United States of America (USA) recipes presented on this site, with 630 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Indian recipes added to this site.

In terms of its cuisine and cookery America takes its cues from the many waves of colonists that came to its shores. The substratum is British and Irish, overlaid with German, Italian, French and Spanish influences.

Since the 1860s American cuisine has been more influenced by the cookery of Mexico, though there has also been a native style of cookery developed. Even the immigrant communities have adapted and developed their dishes so that the Italian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese etc dishes seen in America are American or Americanized versions of the originals.

These recipes, for the major part, originate in the United States of America (USA). Otherwise they are fusion recipes with major United States of America (USA) influences.

America, officially The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district that is predominantly situated in central North America. The de facto official language is English, though there is no federally-mandated official language and the capital is Washington DC, with the largest city being New York City. America is a very diverse country, resulting from many successive waves of inward migration. The United States were originally populated between 12 000 and 40 000 years ago by the descendants of Asiatic peoples who crossed the Bering land bridge. However, this Native American population was greatly reduced by disease and warfare after European contact. The United States was founded by thirteen British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their right to self-determination and their establishment of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated the British Empire in the American Revolution, the first successful colonial war of independence. The current United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. Americans' eagerness to expand westward prompted a long series of Indian Wars. The Louisiana Purchase of French-claimed territory under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 almost doubled the nation's size. A series of U.S. military incursions into Florida led Spain to cede it and other Gulf Coast territory in 1819. The Trail of Tears in the 1830s exemplified the Indian removal policy that stripped the native peoples of their land. The United States annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845. The concept of Manifest Destiny was popularized during this time. The 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present-day American Northwest. The U.S. victory in the Mexican–American War resulted in the 1848 cession of California and much of the present-day American Southwest. The California Gold Rush of 1848–49 further spurred western migration. Tensions between slave and free states mounted with arguments over the relationship between the state and federal governments, as well as violent conflicts over the spread of slavery into new states. Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the largely antislavery Republican Party, was elected president in 1860. Before he took office, seven slave states declared their secession—which the federal government maintained was illegal—and formed the Confederate States of America. With the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, the American Civil War began and four more slave states joined the Confederacy. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 declared slaves in the Confederacy to be free. Following the Union victory in 1865, three amendments to the U.S. Constitution ensured freedom for the nearly four million African Americans who had been slaves, made them citizens, and gave them voting rights. The war and its resolution led to a substantial increase in federal power.

After the war, the assassination of Lincoln radicalized Republican Reconstruction policies aimed at reintegrating and rebuilding the Southern states while ensuring the rights of the newly freed slaves. The resolution of the disputed 1876 presidential election by the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws soon disenfranchised many African Americans. In the North, urbanization and an unprecedented influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe hastened the country's industrialization. The wave of immigration, lasting until 1929, provided labor and transformed American culture. National infrastructure development spurred economic growth. The 1867 Alaska purchase from Russia completed the country's mainland expansion. In 1893, the indigenous monarchy of the Pacific Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in a coup led by American residents; the United States annexed the archipelago in 1898. Victory in the Spanish–American War the same year demonstrated that the United States was a world power and led to the annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The Philippines gained independence a half-century later; Puerto Rico and Guam remain U.S. territories. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the United States remained neutral. Most Americans sympathized with the British and French, although many opposed intervention. In 1917, the United States joined the Allies, helping to turn the tide against the Central Powers. The United States, effectively neutral during World War II's early stages after Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939, began supplying materiel to the Allies in March 1941 through the Lend-Lease program. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to join the Allies against the Axis powers as well as the internment of Japanese Americans by the thousands. Participation in the war spurred capital investment and industrial capacity. Among the major combatants, the United States was the only nation to become richer—indeed, far richer—instead of poorer because of the war. The United States and Soviet Union jockeyed for power after World War II during the Cold War, dominating the military affairs of Europe through NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The United States promoted liberal democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union promoted communism and a centrally planned economy. Both supported dictatorships and engaged in proxy wars. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower.

The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, and the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest both by land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations. It emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

The capital of the USA is Washington and the largest city is New York City.

The state was formed as part of the independence of French West Africa from French colonial rule. Because of this history, French is the official language, but it is understood by only a minority of the population.[20] Over 30 languages are spoken in Senegal. Wolof is the most widely spoken one, with 80% of the population speaking it as a first or second language,[21] acting as Senegal's lingua franca alongside French. Like other African nations, the country includes a wide mix of ethnic and linguistic communities, with the largest being the Wolof, Fula, and Serer people. Senegalese people are predominantly Muslim.

The Symbols of America

The main and most well known symbol of America is the bald eagle. The bird is the national bird of the United States of America and it appears on the presidential seal. America's founding fathers were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery (usually involving the Golden Eagle) was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the still-current design for the Great Seal of the United States including a Bald Eagle grasping 13 arrows and a 13-leaf olive branch with its talons.

The most well known American festival is that of Thanksgiving. As a festival, Thanksgiving is primarily a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to god, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks to god for a bountiful harvest. Today, in the United States, Thanksgiving Day falls on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. In Grenada it is celebrated on October 25th and in Liberia it is celebrated on the first Thursday of November. For more information about Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving recipes, see the F3 Thanksgiving Information and Recipes page.

Food and Cuisine:

In terms of its cuisine, America is generally similar to those in other Western countries. Wheat is the primary cereal grain. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, white-tailed deer venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by American Indians and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, 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. Iconic American dishes such as apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from the recipes of various immigrants and domestic innovations. So-called French fries, Mexican dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are widely consumed.

The cuisine of America is mainly based on European foods and cookery techniques. As the major waves of immigration to America came from Europe. Initially British and German cuisines predominated and these still form the bedrock of American cookery, though from the 1740s a new and distinctive form of natively American cuisine did evolve.

Today, America is one of the culturally and ethnically most diverse countries in the world and there are major influences in American cuisine from Asian, Italian, Mexican and Caribbean cookery. Though in all instances the dishes tend to have been Americanized an are quite different from the native dish as it would be cooked in its home country. Of course, this does help in the generation of a distinctly American style of cookery.

There can also be a significant difference in terms of cuisine from state to state and from city to city. This can be as a result of patterns of immigration, local produce and how the state has fared economically.

Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, white-tailed deer venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by American Indians and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, 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.