Regional Cuisines
The majority of immigrants to North America in the 17th and 18th centuries came from various parts of Britain in four waves. These four migration waves established the four major regional cultures that still affect life in the United States to this day. Each of the migrations settled in different regions and were dominated by regional cultures from the British Isles that were transplanted across the Atlantic. Along with specific customs related to everything from religion to language, the British migrants brought with them food habits that formed major regional cuisines of English-speaking America.
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