h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The best of the (many) cookbooks we own is "Food Editors' Favorites" from the mid 1980's. Mostly old family recipes, one from each food editor at newspapers around the country. One we particularly like is "Low Country Boil", the "low country" in this case being Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. You fill a BIG pot with water, add shrimp/crab boil and bring to a boil. Then add sausage, corn on the cob (half ears), and later unpeeled shrimp. We also add unpeeled potatoes. Pretty simple and really good.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/051760521X?tag=openlibr-20

The definitive American cookbook is the Fanny Farmer "Boston Cooking School Cookbook" which used to include instructions on skinning beaver (and other small critters) tanning hides and basic taxidermy skills.

Sadly the online version is from the 1918 edition, the last actually authorised by Fannie herself, and if you click on chapter 17 'Poultry and Game' you'll discover most of the 'good' recipes for wildlife have been omitted.

http://www.bartleby.com/87/


~jwf~

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It's H&S stuff; fewer bacteria in the cheese means less gas blowing holes in the cheese.

By coincidence read this earlier.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/20/090720crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all

I am thinking really gooey squidgy cookies, and raw cookie dough .

And things with syrup and cinnamon.

But yeah, giant burger with fake mustard and fake cheese also springs to mind. What they export to us via McDreck basically.

Freedom Fries.

(Over here, we call them 'les frites de la liberté '. )

".....and the 'frying' is brought to you direct by our special correspondants....."

Has Clam Chowder had a mention? I once had it in Philidelphia...and it was

American Food = Food from the continent of America?

Did you mean United States of America food?

Again proving that residents of the USA forget they are only a small part of America.

There is one small consolation for them though - They were British, French and Spanish when they started the extermination of Americans.

Sorry I forgot Portugese - then that is so easy to do

American food - Buffalo would be a good contender - I think there are still a few they have not killed.

I believe the buffalo were re-introduced, weren't they? Thought they were extinct for a while (well, in the wild anyway...)

Passenger Pigeon Pie.

I spotted a while back that the "food" item generally known as "Cheese Slices" is usually described on the pack as "cheese food".

Not actually cheese then.

PP

See also:

Orange Flavored Drink.

And a friend once described things like Turkey Twizzler's as:

'Non-vegetarian Meat Substitutes.'

Turkey Twizzlers?

*Please* tell me that's not what I'm imagining--turkey-flavored licorice Then again, I do know of chicken-flavored hard candy

Baconnaise!

>>*Please* tell me that's not what I'm imagining--turkey-flavored licorice

No. They're the leftover parts of factory-farmed turkeys, turned into a pink slurry, formed ito crude shapes, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. They're the traditional foodstuff of post-Thatcherite British schoolchildren.

As opposed to corned beef - the mechanically recovered pink sludge of the pre-Thatcherite children.

Ah--like chicken nuggets but with turkey.

YYUR4Me, would you mind not turning such a simple question into an inexplicable vendetta?

Blah, Clam Chowder. I hate it.

New England Clam Chowder (milk)
Coney Island aka Manhattan Clam Chowder (tomato)
Hangtown Clam Chowder - with oysters

California sushi rolls with avocado

Seafood gumbo
Chicken gumbo

Jambalaya
Crawfish pie

Pecan Pie
Key Lime Pie

Hush puppies

Sarsaparilla

Chapino

Oddly enough I spotted an ad in my monthly sci-fi magazine yesterday for a website specialising in importing american food.

my list, for what it's worth:

Food made of nothing real (twinkies )

cheese in bottles

marshmallow in jars

peanut butter and 'jelly'

the genius concept of putting maple syrup with bacon

grits and creamed corn (just doesn't appeal)

burgers (can be or it depends.

some fab looking food from proper diners that I would love to visit just to sample.

Bologna (what *is* it?)