Many iconic American dishes were happy accidents, proving that some of the best flavors come from mistakes, not plans.

Sweet and savory American recipes are also conquering our kitchens with intense flavors and irresistible contrasts. From ...

What is American food? What is America? Go ahead, we're all waiting. It's not like it's a difficult question or anything. Had Europeans never made it over here, maybe the answer would be simpler: ...

Paula Johnson is the project director and curator of Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000, which opens at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on November 20. She says the ...

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 ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Every summer, like clockwork, grocery store ...

The stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the American Great Depression, an era of intense hardship that lasted for an entire decade. Gazing over the state of the country, President FDR ...

Even today, the only American meal with any historical underpinnings is Thanksgiving, and even that has devolved into a rote, clichéd meal as symbolic of excess and domestic friction as it is of any ...

He helped bring the African American cooking of the Carolina Lowcountry to the world and became known as the “dean of Southern Cuisine.” By Clay Risen Joe Randall, who as the widely acknowledged “dean ...