American (United States)
Regional Food & Cooking

Web Sites

• American Diner Museum
  The American Diner Museum is a non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance. A permanent home for the American Diner Museum is being established in Providence, Rhode Island.
• American Folk
  The folklore and pop culture of food. Recipes for tamales (the great Southern California Christmas tradition), stinkbait and more.
• Carolina cookin'
  Recipes from Carolina Country magazine, a publication for its consumers by North Carolina's electric cooperatives.
• Chef John Folse & Company: Louisiana Cooking
  Host of Stirrin' it up radio show with recipe of the week and links to large collection of previous show recipes. Lots of recipes for game, including alligator, Prairie Chicken and Dumpling Stew, Brunswick Stew.
• Chef Rick McDaniels Southern Cooking
  Recipes offered are a blend of Cajun, Creole, and Southern home cooking, along with a touch of Soul food and some good old fashioned down-home cooking. Recipes include blackberry dumplings, apple and blackberry cobblers, apple butter, chow chow, jambalayas, gumbos, and many more.
• Cocinas de New Mexico
  Recipes from the book Cocinas De New Mexico published by the Public Service Company of New Mexico.
• Cook's Country
  A magazine from America's Test Kitchen that also publishes Cook's Illustrated. Cook's Country specializes in very American dishes like deviled eggs, guacamole, jambalaya, etc.
• Eastern Shore of Virginia Recipes
  Here are recipes for crab cakes, clam fritters, scrapple, sweet potato biscuits and pie, hayman potatoes and more.
• Epicurious: Recipe Browse
  Browse through this eclectic collection from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines.
  • American
  • Southern/Soul Food
  • Southwestern
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
  The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online digital collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the 19th and early 20th century.
• Florida Cuisine
  Recipes from the Marketing Florida Agriculture website. Includes recipes for alligators, ostrich, venison and lots of seafood as well as Key Lime Pie.
• Gourmet Magazine: Archive Search: Southern U.S.
  These are articles tagged with the keyword southern U.S. Among the articles are ones by John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
• Hidden Kitchens
  This is an NPR (National Public Radio) ongoing series by the Kitchen Sisters that explores "the world of hidden kitchens: street-corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions...how communities come together through food."
• Key Ingredients: America by Food
  "This is the online educational companion to the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition Key Ingredients: America by Food. Explore the two ingredients that are key to American cuisine – regional traditions and international influences." It includes a history of American food in Flash and the American Cookbook Project with recipes from all over the US. You can add your own recipe and story!
• Martha White
  This website has recipes for many Southern baked goods using Martha White flours, both corn and wheat. Although you can't find Marth White products in Pennsylvania, you can find them in Ohio and West Virginia.
• Mississippi Delta Hot Tamale Trail
  One wouldn't think you'd find tamales in Mississippi but "Tamales have been a menu mainstay in the Mississippi Delta for much of the twentieth century". This website is a project of the Southern Foodways Alliance to document the history, tradition, and culture of hot tamales in Mississippi.
• Name that Candybar
  Is there anything more American than these candybars?? From the Thinking Fountain at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
• Roadfood.com
  Roadfood.com is a website devoted to finding the most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America. Among their team are Jane & Michael Stern, authors of various books about Road Food.
• Sauerkraut Recipes
  Is sauerkraut American?? This website is intriguing for the recipes that are posted by the users, all of whom have US addresses. Some of the more captivating recipes are: Savory Rueben Cheesecake, Grandma's Sauerkraut and Spareribs, Sauerkraut egg rolls, Sauerkraut Smoothie, Pig Tails & Sauerkraut.
• Southern Foodways Alliance
  Southern Foodways Alliance is an an affiliated institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture with headquarters at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The mission of the SFA is to celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture the traditional and developing diverse food cultures of the American South.
• Sugar Maple Program at Cornell
  Pure maple syrup is a traditional natural product unique to North America. Learn all about Maple Syrup at this Cornell University website. You can find recipes under information for the general public.
• Tailgaiting America
  What could be more American than a tailgating party at a football game? Included are tips on how to tailgate and recipes for favorite tailgating food, like Nittany Lion Spread, Steel City Crunchy Cole Slaw, Steeler's Sideline Sausage.

• A Taste of Louisiana
  This is the companion website to the Louisiana Public Broadcasting series on Louisiana cooking with Chef John Folse. The website includes recipes.
• Texas Cooking
  An online magazine out of Austin, Texas that specializes in Southwestern cuisine.
• What's Cooking America
  A recipe site created by Linda Stradley with some very "American" dishes, as well as ethnic dishes. Her explanations about the dishes and their history make the site interesting. Included are recipes for Rhode Island Coffee Milk - Coffee Cabinet and New York Egg Cream
• Wild Game Recipes
  This is an extension service publication from North Carolina State University and covers recipes for such native foods as armadillo, bear, beaver, duck, elk, muskrat, opossum, quail, rabbit, raccoon, rattlesnake, squirrel, venison and woodchuck.
• Yankee Magazine: Food
  Look here for classic New England recipes from Boston baked beans to clam chowder, from blueberry pie to johnnycakes. These foods have not only sustained the region for nearly 400 years, they've helped define it. Check out their New Englandy Food and Classic New England Recipes.