American cuisine

This article covers America's cooking traditions. American kitchens also describe a specific (“open”) arrangement of the cooking area within an apartment.

The kitchen traditions of the American continent differ greatly from region to region. What they all have in common is that traditional elements of European cuisine and the regional and country kitchens of the immigrants were mixed with American foods and the methods of preparation of the indigenous peoples.

A rough breakdown of American kitchen traditions:

• American cuisine
  • Southern cuisine
  • California Cuisine
  • Cajun food
  • Soul food
  • Tex-Mex cuisine
  • German cuisine in the United States

• Central American cuisine
  • Mexican cuisine
• Caribbean cuisine
• South American cuisine
  • Argentinian cuisine
  • Brazilian cuisine
  • Peruvian kitchen