THE WONDERS OF LOCAL CUISINE, The Wonders Of Local Cuisine

Hello, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to introduce you to the marvelous flavors of Washington, a relatively young city that offers mainly international cuisine, but where you can also try a number of typical dishes.

The huge range of American cuisine comprises recipes from Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as native dishes, and it varies widely from one State to the next. What you’ll find in Washington is South-eastern cuisine: the oldest in the US. Many recipes come from the Native American tribes, and date back 400 years.

The American Indian cooking tradition is most evident in the dishes made with maize flour, typical of the Indian tribes. The flour is used to make a typical bread, polenta, and for Grits, a soup the Indian chiefs used during celebrations. Above all, we have the Native Americans to thank for the most characteristically Yankee tradition of them all: the Barbecue, the method for slow-cooking and smoking meat over hot coals. The very name derives from an Indian word, Baribicu, meaning hole of fire.

The black community has also made a significant contribution to American cuisine: everyday Southern food is also known as Soul food, by analogy with Soul, black music par excellence....