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Akutaq - Eskimo Ice Cream

American Regional Foods
Recipes of favorite foods of America by regions

Apples

Artichokes

Avocados

Baking Powder

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

Beignets

Bialys

Boiled Peanuts
 

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
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

Catfish

Ceviche

Cheese Curds (Deep Fried)
 

Chicken Booyah

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 of the La Belle Epoque (1880-1914), known as "The Beautiful Era."

Fajita

Frogmore Stew
 

Garbage Plate

Grits - Shrimp & Grits

Gumbo

Hamburgers

Hangtown Fry

Hawaiian Foods:
Hawaiian Saimin
Loco Moco
Poke
Shave Ice
Spam - Spam Musubi

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

Jambalaya

Johnnycakes, Jonnycakes, Journey Cakes, Shawnee Cakes

Lutefisk

King Cake, Mardi Gras Cake


Kringles
 

Limburger Cheese

Lobster Newberg

Loco Moco (Hawaiian)
 

Oysters:
Hangtown Fry
Oyster Cocktail - Oyster Shot - Oyster Shooter
Oysters Rockefeller

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
Pumpkin Pie
Shoofly Pie
Sugar Cream Pie
Tarte Tatin

Pizza

Poke (Hawaiian)

 

Popcorn
Caramel Corn
Cracker Jacks
Popcorn Balls

Poultry Dishes
Chicken A' La King
Chicken Booyah
Chicken Cacciatora
Chicken Divan
Chicken-Fried Steak
Chicken Kiev
Chicken Marengo
Chicken Rochambeau
Chicken Tetrazzini
Country Captain Chicken
General Tso's Chicken

Rocky Mountain Oysters
Prairie Oysters
Montana Tendergroins
Cowboy Caviar
Swinging Beef
Calf Fries

Salads & Salad Dressings
Caesar Salad
Cobb Salad
Crab Louie Salad
Coleslaw
Green Goddess Dressing Panzanella
Russian Dressing
Thousand Island Dressing
Waldorf Salad

Salmon

Sandwiches
Beef On Weck
Club Sandwich
Cornish Pasty/Pasties
Cuban Sandwich
Fish Tacos
Fluffernutter Sandwich
French Dip Sandwich
Gyro
Hamburgers 
Horseshoe Sandwich
Hot Brown Sandwich
Hot Dogs 
Limburger Sandwich
Monte Cristo Sandwich
Muffuletta
Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
Philadelphia Cheese Steak
Po' Boy, Submarine, Hoagie, Dagwood, and Italian Sandwiches
Reuben Sandwich
Runza Sandwich
Slugburger
Spiedie Sandwich
Tortillas & Tacos
Walleye Sandwich

San Francisco Cioppino

Sauces
Aioli
Béarnaise Sauce
Béchamel Sauce
Chasseur Sauce
Hollandaise Sauce
Mayonnaise
Newburg Sauce
Mother Sauces
Veloute Sauce

Sauerkraut

Sazerac Cocktail

Senate Bean Soup

Shave Ice (Hawaiian)

Smelt
Eulachon, Oolichan, Candlefish, Hooligan

Soups & Stews:
Chicken Booyah
Chowder
Frogmore Stew
Gumbo
Jambalaya
San Francisco Cioppino
Senate Bean Soup

Spam - Spam Musubi

 

Tabasco

Tomatoes

Tortillas & Tacos -
Navajo Fry Bread & Indian Tacos

Vegemite

Whoopie Pies