A Harte Appetite: Some 'foreign' foods were created in America

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The humorist Gerald Nachman contends, "When it comes to foreign food, the less authentic the better." Ironically, he probably doesn't realize just how many so-called "foreign" foods were invented right here in the United States.

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