United States

Election Day cake recipe from Connecticut

In colonial days, election days were very much celebrated. Celebration included speeches, parades, and festive food -of course, celebration is synonym of good food.

Green apples

Easy old fashioned meatloaf from Massachusetts

The beauty of meat loaf is that it can be comfort food or luscious entertaining; come to the table warm with vegetables, gravy, and mashed potatoes or cold with salad, bread and pickles.

Buoys at Rockport, Massachusetts

Crab & rice Maryland

Crabs are cooked in a myriad of ways, boiled, baked or fried in bacon drippings, as in this recipe.

Fisherman with crab in hand

Corned beef and cabbage dinner

In many Irish American households in the United States, Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17 with a family gathering and a corned beef and cabbage dinner.

Shamrocks, symbol of Ireland

Cincinnati chili over pasta

This Cincinnati chili is prepared with Mediterranean herbs and spices -oregano, cumin, and cloves- and served over pasta, topped with mountains of gratted cheese.

Beans

Dutch babies

Dutch babies are oven pancakes made from liquid batter. They are similar to a large Yorkshire pudding and from German origin... neither Dutch, nor babies. The recipe is very easy, try.

Preparing batter

Apple appetizer

An ideal appetizer for harvest time or to celebrate Halloween.

Boston baked beans

As the early settlers did, you could get more than one dinner from a batch of baked beans. Freeze any surplus beans in small containers for other times when you are squeezed for time.

Beans

Amish peanut butter

Amish peanut butter is a spread for bread rolls. Amish peanut butter can also be purchased from several companies that specialize in Amish foods, but why buy something that is easily made at home?

Raw peanuts

Baked Crab Cakes

There are many ways to cook a crab in Maryland. Soups, salads, breakfast dishes and tasty main courses are made with crab, but crab cakes are probably the best known dish of all Maryland.

Fisherman with crab in hand

Where to go from here?

First step would be stocking the staples you need to cook international. Why not follow the recommendations in our basic pantry?

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