Reading: American food

American food- as diverse as its people.

Most of the time when people hear the term American food they have fast food in mind: hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, and all the other speedy dishes. Partly they seem to be right. You can hardly fail to notice the influence of fast food in any westerns society by legions of fast food temples. Nowadays the “fast way of eating” is not only best known for the US – it even became a symbol for “Americanness”. However, American has created a far more exciting variety of eating culture.

All different groups of immigrant that arrived in America have also brought their varieties of food which have shaped to what is known as “American Food” now.

 Besides English and particularly puritan influences there were also French, Spanish, German and Italian settlers who not only enriched the American way of life with their specific culture but also contributed diverse eating traditions. While the Spanish influenced the Mexican cuisine, the latter developed a great and popular kind of food that spread from South West to almost every part of US. Especially Italy introduced a great amount of dishes that almost every American would call genuinely made in the US. The former salves brought in African cooking, and different religious groups, such as the Quakers and the Amish people, tagged part of a food culture with names. As we can see there is a not only the cliché of those almost overstretched hamburger buns which are every American in a way – but there is a whole diversity of other foods and food varieties to discover.

 

Questions: True or False 

1. The Spanish cuisine was influenced by Mexico.

2. The American food is a mixture of Spanish, German, Italian and French cuisine.

3. There are temples of fast food in America.

Test 

1. What was the country that introduced the greatest variety of dishes in America?

a. Spain  b. Germany  c. Italy  d. England

2. What is "speedy food"?

a. Puritan food   b. Hamburgers, French fries and hot dogs.

3. what has became a symbol of "Americanness"?

a. The European food    b. "Fast way of eating"  c. Italian food.

Answers: Questions 

1. False, Mexican food was influenced by Spain.

2. True.

3. True

Test 

1. c

2. b

3.b