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Absinthe

Akutaq - Eskimo Ice Cream

American Regional Foods
Recipes of favorite foods of America by regions

Apples

Artichokes

Avocados

Baking Powder

Beverages:
Absinthe
Bubble Tea
Coffee Milk/Coffee Cabinet
Date Shake - Date Milkshake
Hot Chocolate
Hurricane
Eggnog
Iced Tea and Sweet Tea
Irish Coffee
Mint Julep
New York Egg Cream
Oyster Shot - Oyster Shooter
Prickly Pear Margarita
Sazerac Cocktail
 

Beignets

Bialys

Boiled Peanuts

Breads:
Beignets
Bialys
Buuelos
Cornish Pasty/Pasties
Hushpuppies
Indian Tacos
Italian Panettone Bread
Johnnycakes/Jonnycakes
Kringles
Navajo Fry Bread
Panettone Bread
Tortillas & Tacos

Bubble Tea

Buffalo Chicken Wings

 

Cakes
Angel Food Cake
Apple Charlotte
Baba
Baba Au Rhum
Baked Alaska
Birthday Cake
Black Forest Cake
Boston Cream Pie
Charlotte Malakoff
Charlotte Russe
Cheesecake
Chiffon Cake
Devil's Food Cake
Election Cake
Fruitcakes
German Chocolate Cake
Gooey Butter Cake
Guava Chiffon Cake
Haupia Cake - Hawaiian Pudding Cake
Huguenot Torte
King Cake, Mardi Gras Cake
Lamington, Lemmington
Lady Baltimore Cake
Lady Fingers
Linzer Torte
Madeleines
New York Cheesecake
Panforte
Pavlova
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Pound Cake
Red Velvet Cake
Robert E. Lee Cake
Sachertorte, Sacher Cake
Sally Lunn Cake
Savarin
Smith Island Cake
Sponge Cake
Tarmisu
Tres Leches Cake
Trifle

Chicken-Fried Steak

Chili, Chili Con Carne


 

Chimichanga

Chitterlings/Chitlins

Chocolate:
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate

Chowder
Bermuda Fish Chowder
Boston Clam Chowder
Clam Chowder
Cod Chowder
Conch Chowder
Down East Chowder
Fish Chowder/Fish Stew
Manhattan Clam Chowder
Minorcan Clam Chowder
New England Clam Chowder
She Crab Soup
West Coast Chowder

Cincinnati Chili

Coffee Milk/Coffee Cabinet

Collard Greens

Cookies
Ammonia Cookies
Animal Crackers
Anzac Biscuits
Brownies
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Biscotti
Fig Newtons
Fortune Cookie
Hardtack
Ladyfingers
Macaroon
Nazareth Sugar Cookie
Peanut Butter Cookies
Pizzelle
Snickerdoodles
Springerle
Tuile

Corn

Cornish Pasty/Pasties

Country Ham and Red Eye Gravy

Crawfish Boil, Jazz Brunch, & Reveillon Dinner

Crawfish Boil

 

Crepes Suzette

Eggnog

Eggs Benedict


 

English Afternoon Tea:
History of Afternoon Tea
Learn all about the history of English Tea Time

Rose Garden Tea with the Queen of England
About tea at Buckingham Palace

The Afternoon Tea Gowns
The La Belle Epoque (1880-1914), known as "The Beautiful Era."
 

Fajita

Frogmore Stew

 

Garbage Plate

Grits - Shrimp & Grits

Gumbo

Hamburgers

Hangtown Fry

Hasty Pudding/Indian Pudding

Hawaiian Foods:
Guava Chiffon Cake
Haupia Cake - Hawaiian Pudding Cake
Hawaiian Saimin
Loco Moco
Poke
Shave Ice
Spam - Spam Musubi

Honeycomb Toffee - Sponge Candy

Hoppin' John

Hot Dogs

Huckleberry, Huckleberries

Hurricane

Hushpuppies

Ice Cream:
Baked Alaska
Ice Cream and Ices
Ice Cream Cone
Ice Cream Sundae

Iced Tea and Sweet Tea

Italian Panettone Bread

Jambalaya

Johnnycakes, Jonnycakes, Journey Cakes, Shawnee Cakes

Lutefisk

King Cake, Mardi Gras Cake


Kringles - Danish Kringles
 

Limburger Cheese

Lobster Newberg

Loco Moco (Hawaiian)

 

Pies
Apple Pie a la Mode
Chess Pie
Chiffon Pie
Chorley Cake
Cobbler-Crisps-Crumble-Brown Betty-Buckle-Grunts-Slumps-Bird's Nest Pudding-Sonker-Pandowdy
Funeral Pie
Huckleberry Pie
Ice Box Pies
Key Lime Pie
Lamprey Pie
Mincemeat Pie
Pastie or Pasty
Pizza