MIDWESTERN CUISINE

• Hot dish and Jell-o salad are the comfort foods.
• Strangers are welcome, and caring for your fellow neighbor.
• A surge of immigration beginning around the time of the Civil War.

HOT DISH

• Large families, church suppers, and pot lucks are easy hearty meals.
• Common Hot dishes are tuna with noodles, tater tot casserole, and green bean casserole.
• Some popular deserts are the Jell-O salad and the cookie bar casserole.

LOOSE MEAT SANDWHICH

• "Cowboy Food" is a popular loose meat food.
• The Sloppy Joe is the close cousin to the loose meat.
• The loose meat sandwich and loose hamburger are seasoned with loose ground beef.

CINCINNATI CHILI

• Cincinnati Chili is very famous.
• Chili can be served in two ways in a bowl or without a bowl.
• There is two-way chili or chili spaghetti.

CORNISH PASTY OR MEAT PIES

• The Cornish Pasty was originated from Cornwall England.
• The miners liked the meal for lunch.
• It's made with meat and vegetables.

PIEROGI

• Pierogis are dumplings similar to potstickers.
• They are boiled, baked or fried.
• They are usually filled with potato, sauerkraut and ground meat.

GOULASH

• It is popular in Cleveland, Ohio.
• It is often baked as a casserole.
• It includes macaroni, tomato sauce and vegetables like corn and beans.

LEFSE AND LUTEFISK

• These two dishes were originated in Norway.
• Lefse is a type of flat bread sometimes made of potato.
• Lutefisk is dried cod, cured with lye.

FARMERS MARKET

• They have really good and fresh food.
• There are many farmers markets in the summer.
• They have sweet corn, beans, tomatoes and peas.

HUNTING AND FISHING

• There a lot of hunting and fishing clubs in Alaska.
• They have "Wild Game Feeds"
• It is more common to eat wild game than expensive domesticated animals.

MUSHROOMS

• Germans love mushrooms.
• There are many types of mushrooms.
• They would be served with fish.

NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE FRUIT

• The blueberry muffin is the state muffin.
• Blueberries, Cranberries and Concord grapes are the native.
• Blueberries are used to make pies, muffins, and bread.

WILD RICE

• California is the largest producer.
• Wild rice was is harvested in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
• Native Americans would go out.

SOURDOUGH

• Sourdough is one of the most American foods.
• It is used to make biscuits, bread and pancakes.
• When the packaged yeast was introduced to the U.S. the sourdough disappeared.

CORN

• When they first settled in the Midwest they had a lot of cornfields.
• If times were bad there was only corn to eat.
• Traveling today you will see cornfields and soybeans.

FESTIVALS

• Scandinavians celebrate all their heritages.
• In the summer Scandinavians has a festival.
• There are many communities that celebrate there heritages like Italian, Czech, and Polish.

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