> My inclination is to consider the so-called "Italian" food to be essentially
> the American cuisine because it is available everywhere, even in smallest
> podunks, it broadly accepted as "everyday food" i.e. something a person
> would make him/herself at home, and it has a distinctively American flavor
> which is different from the native Italian variant .
American cuisine is anything that comes in packaging and can be microwaved.
Chuck
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