Melting Pot Cooks Up New American Cuisine 美国食物新吃法 In most major U.S.cities,you can find street food carts where vendors sell meals from mobile trucks.Food is always attached to memory. And many people end up cooking the foods of their childhood -whether it's new immigrants selling their native cuisine or entrepreneurs dipping back into grandmother's recipes. But throughout the United States,a new breed of food cart is emerging.These mobile restaurants sell fusion food,bringing together several different ethnic dishes and ingredients to create a new American cuisine-like this Korean taco. "It's wrapped in a corn tortilla,Mexican,taco track.We have a spicy pork,which is very Korean,"Kamala Saxton owns Marination Mobile,a food truck in Seattle."We have put our own homemade pickled jalapenos,which is Korean or Hawaiian.And so there are a number of different ethnicities in one serving of the spicy pork taco." The Korean taco might be a new taste for a lot of diners.But Saxton feels like it's a natural combination,especially given where she comes from. "It's truely the mix played in Hawaiian,since I'm Korean,Hawaiian,Filipino and Spanish.And given that,you have someone in your family that knows how to cook one of those ethnic dishes" But fusion doesn't just happen for vendors with Saxton's diverse culinary background. Jane Ziegelman is an historian,who writes about New York street food,she says that even in places that didn't have Hawaii's multi-ethnic families,street carts will still a place where people come together and find out what their neighbors eat. "You had Irish kids eating Jewish pickles.You had Italian immigrants eating Jewish potato pancakes.You had all kinds of people drinking seltzer,which was,in fact a street food.So people were eating each others'food all the time." And this exchange affected the street food itself.Ziegelman says that knishes,egg rolls and hot dogs all underwent the same American transformation. "Foods brought over by immigrants grew in size.This is like something that happens to a lot of foods once they come to the United States.They get bigger and they get blander.” And they also get portable.Ziegelman notes that the hot dog moved from a plate to a bun and the bagel became a vehicle for an on-the-go meal of smoked salmon and cream cheese.Melting Pot Cooks Up New American Cuisine 美国食物新吃法 In most major U.S. cities, you can find street food carts where vendors sell meals from mobile trucks. Food is always attached to memory. And many people end up cooking the foods of their childhood - whether it's new immigrants selling their native cuisine or entrepreneurs dipping back into grandmother's recipes. But throughout the United States, a new breed of food cart is emerging. These mobile restaurants sell fusion food, bringing together several different ethnic dishes and ingredients to create a new American cuisine - like this Korean taco. "It’s wrapped in a corn tortilla, Mexican, taco track. We have a spicy pork, which is very Korean,” Kamala Saxton owns Marination Mobile, a food truck in Seattle. “We have put our own homemade pickled jalapenos, which is Korean or Hawaiian. And so there are a number of different ethnicities in one serving of the spicy pork taco.” The Korean taco might be a new taste for a lot of diners. But Saxton feels like it’s a natural combination, especially given where she comes from. "It's truely the mix played in Hawaiian, since I’m Korean, Hawaiian, Filipino and Spanish. And given that, you have someone in your family that knows how to cook one of those ethnic dishes" But fusion doesn’t just happen for vendors with Saxton’s diverse culinary background. Jane Ziegelman is an historian, who writes about New York street food, she says that even in places that didn't have Hawaii's multi-ethnic families, street carts will still a place where people come together and find out what their neighbors eat. "You had Irish kids eating Jewish pickles. You had Italian immigrants eating Jewish potato pancakes. You had all kinds of people drinking seltzer, which was, in fact a street food. So people were eating each others’ food all the time.” And this exchange affected the street food itself. Ziegelman says that knishes, egg rolls and hot dogs all underwent the same American transformation. "Foods brought over by immigrants grew in size. This is like something that happens to a lot of foods once they come to the United States. They get bigger and they get blander.” And they also get portable. Ziegelman notes that the hot dog moved from a plate to a bun and the bagel became a vehicle for an on-the-go meal of smoked salmon and cream cheese