In the article, “We Are What We Eat: We Are a Nation of Immigrants!” by David Rosengarten, he examines how different cultural cuisines have been combined to produce American food. Rosengarten suggests that the American cuisine is built around eating to live rather than living to eat. We have certainly led the planet in the development of “convenience” foods (Rosengarten 218). He mentions how rice cooks in a minute, and soup only needs a minute in the microwave (Rosengarten 218). Rosengarten argues that convenience food is not going to play a role in the development of American haute cuisine. He goes into detail stating how numerous influences have affected the development of cuisine in the United States. Rosengarten realizes people who are