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Usage examples of foods.

Although restaurants were sparse in the rural lands, the urbanized German Americans built massive, ornate restaurants featuring Old World foods such as weisswurst, sauerbraten, dark breads, and Wiener schnitzel, washed down with beer.

For economy and ease of operation, Feltman turned to the foods with which he was most familiar, bland sausages on white rolls.

The wealthy continued to frequent their fine eateries, consuming expensive foods and rare wines.

Some readers may be surprised that my story of White Castle begins with an extensive discussion of previous foods and ethnicities, but the primary importance of the White Castle story is how its new food and approach to eating transformed American culture.

The diverse ethnic foods consumed by people from different backgrounds often were a persistent link to their past.

Common features of most true ethnic foods are that they are easily cooked, convenient, inexpensive, and tasty.

For example, long-distance travelers needed food at regular intervals, so the first cross-country train passengers were advised to pack their own dried or preserved foods to sustain their eight-day trek.

Instead, restaurants served an almost infinite number of foods under the broad banner of American cooking.

Arriving mainly from eastern Europe in the early twentieth century, these immigrants favored rich, fatty foods, such as lox, bagels, and gefilte fish.

Often, such foods were not actually Jewish but, rather, had been borrowed and modified from the traditions of the European nations from which the immigrants came.

Other ethnic groups introduced their foods to America on a smaller scale.

Greek immigrants, on the other hand, built up a successful American restaurant following, serving their foods next to traditional American meat and potatoes.

In addition to the endless array of ethnic restaurants in the cities, an even greater number of regional foods were available to diners across the nation.

The foods of Minnesota and the other northern states bore the distinctive flavor of their predominantly Scandinavian immigrant populations.

First served as beverages accompanying foods, these soft drinks often became the end in themselves.