Chapter 7: Great Influences On American Culture

In Chapter 7, we basically learned traditions, adapted foods, history, food habits, and etiquette of the Central Europe, Soviet Union (FSU), and Scandinavians. An interesting fact is that they were the earliest and largest groups to come the United States. There have been many great influences on American culture, especially in cuisine area. Many of them brought skills of bread baking, dairy farming, meat processing, and beer brewing to the U.S. They inspire others to assimilate their ethnic specialties, for a much greater purpose.
The countries of central Europe are Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Poland. I learned incredible fact that Christmas trees and Easter egg hunt were