Question 4: Food & cuisineAmerican food grows more similar around the country as American malls and fast-food outlets tended to standardize eating patterns throughout the nation. Traditionally, American cuisine included conventional European foodstuffs such as wheat, dairy products, pork, and beef. By the late 19th century, immigrants from Europe and Asia introduced even more variations into the American diet. By the early 20th century, Americans began to consume convenient, packaged foods such as breads and cookies, preserved fruits, and pickles. By the mid-20th century, packaged products had expanded greatly. By the late 20th century, Americans had become more conscious of their diets, eating more poultry, fish, and fresh fruits and vegetables and fewer eggs and less beef. As Americans became more concerned about their diets, they also became more ecologically conscious as some Americans began to switch to a partially or wholly vegetarian diet, or to consume products produced organically. At the end of the 20th century, American eating habits and food production were increasingly taking place outside the home. In some ways, American food developments are contradictory. In many ways, these contradictions in food reflect the many influences on American life in the late 20th century—immigration, double-income households, genetic technologies, domestic and foreign travel.
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