American Breakfast

By Brian and Jenna
In our presentation on American breakfast we talked about different breakfast foods that we eat as Americans. For example, we talked about pancakes, waffles, coffee, eggs, sausage, french toast, and cereal. Along with each of these different foods we gave a brief background of each.We talked about how the Chinese Spring Onion Hotcake is a lot like our pancakes and how our oatmeal is a lot like the Chinese Congee that they eat for breakfast. We also made some similarities between the two breakfasts. Some of them consisted of, the use of rice and meats, European Influences, pancakes, use of eggs, porridge type foods, and how the meals are on the go most of the time.

Pancakes: First adapted by the French from China and Nepal in the 12 century by Crusaders. Americans then took this recipe and used it themselves.

Waffles: Invented by the Greeks who would put dough between two cooking plates. Then in the 1200's a craftsman invented the distinguished honeycomb pattern cooking plates. In 1620 the Pilgrims brought over the Dutch waffle after spending time in Holland themselves.

French Toast: The origin of French Toast is unknown but some believe it was invented by French speaking Cajun Chefs in Louisiana. Others believe it was invented by Joseph French near Albany, New York.

Eggs: Easily found every where, eggs have been in the diet of humans for ever.

Sausage: Invented by the Greeks where it was first recorded in the 9th century. It then spread through out Europe where the Germans adapted it. That is where we got the breakfast sausage we have today.

Coffee: Grown naturally in Ethiopia but not used as a drink until the Turkish adapted it. They would add spices to the drink to give it different tastes. Originally coffee wasn't allowed to be exported from Arabian countries but now is grown world wide.

Cereal: First modern cereal was invented by vegetarians in the 1860's in Michigan to improve the diet of hospital patients. After this invention it was spread across the U.S. The first cereal trademark was created in 1877 and it was the Quaker Oats man.