American Regional Cuisine

The Art Institutes are located nationwide, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion, and culinary professionals for over 35 years, with more than 125,000 graduates. Since 1991, The Art Institutes system has offered Culinary Arts programs, with 19 locations currently offering programs in culinary arts and several offering culinary arts management. The Culinary Arts program at The Art Institutes features professional kitchen environments and, in some locations, fully operational restaurants. Students work alongside instructors to learn and perform the hands-on skills chefs use each day beginning with tool usage, kitchen procedures, basic cooking, nutrition, and management courses. In addition, The Art Institutes California - Los Angeles campus was recently featured on the Food Network's reality series, "Cooking School Stories."

• Introduction vAcknowledgments viiiThe Cuisine of New England 2The Cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic 44The Cuisine of the South 86Floribbean Cuisine 132Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole Cuisines 172The Cuisine of the Central Plains 214Texas and Tex-Mex Cuisine 252The Cuisine of the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain Region 304The Cuisine of California 348The Cuisine of the Pacific Northwest 386The Cuisine of Hawaii 430Basic Culinary Vocabulary 469Sustainability Key Terms 474References 481Index 482