Are you sitting down? You won’t believe that these iconic “American” foods were born elsewhere.

Some foods that feel unmistakably American were shaped by recipes, ingredients, and cooking traditions from somewhere else.

Every summer, like clockwork, grocery store shelves explode with displays of edible patriotism. Star-spangled bags of hot dog buns. Red, white, and blue Swedish Fish. Even flag-themed paper plates. It ...

See which American favorites European food safety standards prohibit due to health risks.

On the Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: From lobster rolls to Vietnamese Tex-Mex fusion, American cuisine is challenging to define. British food writer Felicity Cloake, author of ...

Sliced bread. Soul food. Cheetos. Here are 25 inventions, crazes and cravings that defined the national diet, decade by decade. By Kim Severson America’s food history is short, compared with the ...

America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that of reinvention. Waves of food influences – Native, African, British, continental European, ...