Cuisine of the Southern United States
The cuisine of the Southern United States is food prepared across the Southern United States. Foods prepared or from the Southern United States include corn, tomatoes, squash along with other fruits or vegetables.
Much of Creole or Cajun cuisine is based on France, West Africa and the Caribbean.
Traditional Southern meals usually involve catfish, fried chicken, butter beans, biscuits and cornbread.
The restaurants serving Southern food include Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Church's Chicken and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Fried oysters and collard greens
Corn was a vital source of food for Indigenous communities across the Northern Hemisphere. Sophisticated farming techniques were used to cultivate the crop throughout the American continent.
Shrimp and Crab Étouffée plate showing global influences of Southern food. Macaroni and cheese is a British dish. Black-eyed peas are from West Africa. Rice dishes were prepared by enslaved African Americans, Europeans, and Native Americans.
Southern American fried chicken have Scottish and West African influences.
A Southern American biscuit (left) and British biscuits (right)
European cuisine influenced the American pie tradition
Charleston red rice in South Carolina originated from West African jollof rice.
Turkeys are indigenous to North America and were hunted by Native Americans for food. Turkey recipes in Southern cuisine were influenced by Indigenous people.
German cuisine influenced the making of chicken and dumplings.
The food of American Civil War soldiers at Chatham in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Virginia
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