Question

写一篇关于美国美食的英语作文

Answer 1

HowAmericans Eat and Drink

Coca-Cola is the best-selling soft(non-alcoholic) drink in the world. 165 million “Cokes” are sold every day,from the equator to the Arctic. But whereasoutside the USA Coke tends to be a young person’s drink, inside the USA anybody ofany age or income can drink it without embarrassment on any occasion.
Coke is not the only “cola” drink. PepsiCola is a well-known rival and has its devotees, for it is not as sweet asCoke. Cola-drinks contain caffeine from the kola nut and are the only softdrinks which are stimulating as well as refreshing.
There are excellent wines produced in California which arepraised by European connoisseurs, but some Americans prefer stronger stuff.Well-off Americans consume a lot of alcohol in the form of cocktails –mixturesbased on spirits like whisky, gin and vodka.
Hamburgers and hot dogs are perhaps the bestknown American foods. Hot dogs ---sausages between bread rolls ---can be boughtin snack bars and from hot dog stands on street corners. And from San Francisco to New York, in cheap or medium-priced restaurants,hamburgers will be on all the menus, in company with steaks, fried chicken andseafood. They come with French fries and crisp green salad. In most cases it iscertainly good value for money. For dessert you will be offered apple pie,cheese cake, chocolate layer cake, ice cream and ice cream sundae. No ice creamin the world is more delicious than American ice cream.
The American passion for speed has now hitthe food business. Many restaurants, in particular the great chain restaurantcompany, Macdonalds, specialize in “fast food,” food which is served at thecounter ready “to go,” or “to take out.” The food, cooked and hot, is packedinto cardboard and plastic containers, and hot drinks go into plastic cups withtight-fitting lids. There are also drive-in fast-food restaurants, where thecustomer does not even have to leave his or her car. They first stop at theboard where the menu is displayed, give an order through a microphone and thendrive another twenty yards, where a girl hands them the meal, ready cooked andpacked. People who prefer to eat at a table in the restaurant also receivetheir food in cardboard or plastic containers, and the knives, forks and spoonsare plastic, too. When they have finished, customers throw everything exceptthe tray into a trash can.
In most cities, large and small, you can eatMexican or Italian food. And even small towns have a coffee shop serving simplemeals, drinks of all kind and excellent, freshly-made coffee. You sit at thecounter, or are served at the table. Service in restaurants and coffee shops isefficient and friendly. Waiters and waitresses often introduce themselves: “Hi!I’m Don ( or Debbie ). What can I get you folks?” This friendliness is naturaland not entirely influenced by the hope of a high tip. In any case, peopleusually tip 15% of the check. One of the pleasantest things about waiters andwaitresses is that they refill your coffee cup several times for no extracharge!
Many American families pride themselves ontheir cooking and have deep freezers, where they store food they grow in theirgardens or buy in the supermarket. Supermarkets are large self-service storesselling every kind of food --- fresh, canned or frozen. So, like the fast-foodrestaurants, their produce is less expensive and easier to market. There havebeen supermarkets in the USAsince the 1930s, and they have now spread through a large part of the world.
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Answer 2

请参考下面文章。
American food: The 50 greatest dishes
By Dana Joseph, for CNN Travel - 10 May, 2012
Fast, junk, processed -- when it comes to American food, the country is best known for the stuff that's described by words better suited to greasy, grinding industrial output.
But Americans have an impressive appetite for good stuff, too.
To celebrate its endless culinary creativity, we’re throwing our list of 50 most delicious American food items at you.
We know you’re going to want to throw back.
Ground rules: acknowledge that even trying to define American food is tough; further acknowledge that picking favorite American items inevitably means leaving out or accidentally overlooking some much-loved regional specialties.

1. Thanksgiving Dinner
Home is wherever there's a turkey like this.
No fancy centerpieces or long-simmering family squabbles at that first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims decided not to fast but to party with the Wampanoag Indians in 1621 Plymouth.
Today we eschew the venison they most certainly ate, and we cram their three days of feasting into one gluttonous gorge.
Indigestion notwithstanding, nothing tastes so good as that quintessential all-American meal of turkey (roasted or deep-fried bird, or tofurkey, or that weirdly popular Louisiana contribution turducken), dressing (old loaf bread or cornbread, onion and celery, sausage, fruit, chestnuts, oysters -- whatever your mom did, the sage was the thing), cranberry sauce, mashed and sweet potatoes, that funky green bean casserole with the French-fried onion rings on top, and pumpkin pie.
Almost as iconic (and if you ask most kids, as delicious) is the turkey TV dinner, the 1953 brainchild of a Swanson salesman looking to use up 260 overestimated tons of frozen birds. No joke: He got the idea, he said, from tidily packaged airplane food. We do love those leftovers.