The United States is called the melting pot because of the people, and our food is just as diverse as the people. New Zealand could also be called the melting pot for the same reasons. Both, Native Americans and the Maori had to use natural ways of cooking their food, and could only use local resources. Buffalo and fresh water fish is what was available to the Native Americans, and Maori ate dogs, bugs, rats, birds, and sea food. As far as I know Native American's cooked their food above ground, and the Maori cook theirs in the ground. As more people immigrated to both of the countries the cooking changed. When people immigrated from a country, they still tried to eat the food they were used to but since transportation was so limited they had to substitute things, evolving their own culture's recipes, and their new country's. As transportation got easier more ingredients were available which gave people the chance to try new things and create new cooking styles.
I am most afraid that the new food I would actually like, will have something that I'm allergic to in it and that will keep me from trying new things. If food doesn't have a label on it, I'm much less likely to eat it because I can never tell what dyes might be in it. So I will probably try to stick with things I am used to, since I'd prefer not to spend my trip in the hospital :)
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