Eating culture of North America

Food is a very important topic in our life.

But how was the food at times of North American Indian? And how did it develop?

Now I will give a brief insight into the change in food culture in North America from Indian times to today.

At times of Indians they chased her food. The main food were meat of animals from the forest and fish for example deer and seals. The meat was cooked, grilled, smoked or eaten raw.

Also much food was plants and berries because they were very easy to collect.

Because there was no medication like today, crops and medicinal plants were also used very often.

By the way the Indians of North America were the first people who grow potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans and pumpkins. It can be concluded that these ingredients were also very important staple foods. Also an important food was wild rice which they also grew themselves.

So the Indians mainly ate vegetables, plants and meat and have actually lived very healthy and they produced of course no garbage. It looks quite different in this day and age.

These days the food is very varied and busy.

It starts at the breakfast.

The American breakfast is very hearty. It consists of eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, cornflakes, juice and coffee or tea. Often there is even a dessert afterwards, such as cake. The American bread is most soft as a sesame bun.

Also an important part of American food are sandwiches.

You can buy them packaged and chilled or freshly prepared. In supermarkets there are usually huge counters with different types of sandwiches. But also on every other corner you can buy some.

Lunch is not really eaten properly but it is gone into fast food restaurants or diners  etc.

There is a lot of choice of meat. It is more rind but less pig eaten. In addition a lot of poultry is eaten. Turkey for example is usually eaten cold except for thanksgiving.

Also shellfish are very popular, vegetables are rather less eaten and there is almost every meal a salad as an appetizer.

By the many finished food and eating in fast food restaurants there is logically also much more garbage than at times of the Indians who have grown everything themselves.

I hope you enjoyed the short insight into the food culture of North America and you could learn something!

-Jule-

Source: -German: https://www.usatipps.de/tipps/aufenthalt/essen-und-trinken/

                              https://www.indianerwww.de/

        

              -English: http://www.native-languages.org/food.htm

                              http://www.traveller.com.au/the-traveller-10-musttry-american-food-gqbjjm