Ethnic cuisine, ethnic foods & recipes
and American food
Food in America and today's American cuisine is as diverse and rich as the different origins and backgrounds, different cultures and original culinary traditions that American people come from.

Ethnic and foreign influence on American cooking
The study of American food, cooking and cuisine cannot be complete without the study of the cuisine, food recipes and cooking of all its parts, namely the cuisine of the different ethnic American groups (German American cooking, Italian American cooking, Greek American cooking, Mediterranean American cooking, Middle Eastern American cooking, Asian American cooking, African American cooking, etc.) and it starts with the study of the traditional homeland cuisine of all these ethnic American groups and their immigration patterns. Wherever immigrants settled, they brought with them their foods, culinary traditions and recipes. Over time, a lot of these recipes morphed into uniquely American foods and became an integral part of a distinctively American culinary tradition and cuisine. It is to this process of the "Americanization" of ethnic cuisines, foods and recipes that American cuisine today owes its richness, diversity and vitality.

It becomes clear that for us to fully understand and appreciate our American cuisine and our foods and recipes, one has to first look into the impact of ethnic foods and international foods on American cuisine which is a study of our individual original cultures, traditional foods, recipes and dining customs. Then, through a process of "Americanization" of ethnic cuisine and recipes, arrive at our culinary tradition today, our contemporary recipes, foods, specialty foods, holiday recipes, restaurant trends, contemporary specialty restaurants, international food restaurants, fast foods and fast food places and chains, 5 star restaurants, fine dining, etc.

Ethnic Food Network (EthnicFoodNetwork.com) has a goal to bring you the culinary history, traditional foods, ethnic food traditions and recipes of different country cuisines and showcase the cuisine, food and recipes from different regions of the world. In the era of globalization and connectivity, maybe what we truly have at the end is our global culinary heritage, where global is also local and international cuisine and international food is also our own cuisine and our own food. Recipes from around the world, are also the recipes in our own kitchen.