DIVERSITY IS GREAT
Jul. 15, 2009 6:08 pm
Updated: Jul. 15, 2009 11:27 pm
If it's one thing that i've been fortunate to experience is that i've been able to live and travel around the world. Different cultures, different food, and differnt customs. In germany it's considered rude to eat pizza with your hands (or at least it was when i was there), and they don't slice it. In the middle east everything is on the barder system, had a great steak sandwich there once (though i don't remember seeing any cows anywhere) i'm guessing mutten, or god help me camel, didn't really matter though because it was really good. What i love most of all is that all the differences from around the world have all been blended together right in our own backyard. Cajun cooking began with Acadians who migrated to the south back in the 1800's from Canada. BBQ was for some originated by the American Indians, though for me the whole cowboy/chuck wagon thing has to have a strong influence. I learned recently that coney island dogs began in Detroit, not Coney Island, which i find intersting because i'm originally from the greater Detroit area and grew up with Coney Island dogs which should never be confused with a chili dog (completly different animal). I now live near Philadelphia and we have our cheese steaks (that's a story all in itself), scrapple, pork roll, and god love sticky buns. In the south they boil peanuts (my moms from florida and use to make them all the time) i love boiled peanuts. I guess in the long run what i'm trying to say is that you could spend a lifetime traveling just around our own country and never get to sample evrything it has to offer, and all of american cuisine owes itself to the rest of the world as well as itself. Isn't diversirty great!
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