Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Does it attack other traditional American institutions with unsupportable and wild charges??

Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??

American chemists, seeking to increase exports of soybeans, have adapted modern techniques and fermentation methods to improve their use in such traditional Japanese foods as tofu and miso and in tempeh of Indonesia.

This is particularly true as the peoples of the American Southwest began to leave their traditional homes and migrate south.

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90 % of the land is communally owned.

Rod Dreher writes the following: “ unshakable devotion to the land, to localism, and to the dignity of traditional life makes him both a great American and, to the disgrace of our age, a prophet without honor in his native land.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

This type of cooking typically caters to American styles and differs significantly from traditional Chinese cuisine.

Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.

Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, brought by German immigrants to the United States, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and an important symbol in American history.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African American traditional music, before becoming popular in the minstrel shows of the 19th century.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

DNA analysis recently revealed that the identified subspecies of brown bears, both Eurasian and North American, are genetically quite homogeneous, and that their genetic phylogeography does not correspond to their traditional taxonomy.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, most notably as in Ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

The adoption of the radical Pittsburgh Platform in 1885, which dismissed observance of the ritual commandments and Jewish peoplehood as " anachronistic ", created a permanent wedge between the Reform movement and more traditional American Jews.

Also used in reference to the traditional " unit " of criminals under the supervision of a caporegime in the American Mafia.

Cranberry sauce is regarded as an indispensable part of traditional American and Canadian Thanksgiving menus and some European winter festivals.

In traditional U. S. Army slang dating back to the Second World War, a blivet was defined as " ten pounds of manure in a five pound bag " ( a proverbial description of anything egregiously ugly or unmanageable ); it was applied to an unmanageable situation, a crucial but substandard or damaged tool, or a self-important person.

The thai baht, like the pound, originated from a traditional unit of mass.

: All traditional U. S. length and volume measures have been legally standardized for commerce by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 using the definition of 1 yard being exactly equal to 0. 9144 meter.

There are numerous variations on the traditional pound cake, with certain countries and regions having distinctive styles.

Algae based fuels are being successfully tested by the U. S. Navy Algae based plastics show potential to reduce waste and the cost per pound of algae plastic is expected to be cheaper than traditional plastic prices.

These coins were a post-decimalisation continuation of the traditional crown, with the same value of a quarter of a pound sterling.

The typical hot dog weighs 1 / 8 of a pound or and the most traditional type features a natural casing, providing a distinctive " snap " when bitten.

The invention of baking powder and other chemical leavening agents during the 19th century substantially increased the flexibility of this traditional pound cake by introducing the possibility of creating lighter, fluffier cakes using these traditional combinations of ingredients, and it is this transformation that brought about the modern butter cake.

* Vasilopita, Saint Basil's cake or King's cake, traditional only for New Year's Day.

Beside berries, apples are the most used traditional fruit, eaten fresh or served as apple pie, apple sauce, or apple cake.

In Slovenia, tarragon is used as a spice for a traditional sweet cake called potica.

Potato soup and plum cake is a traditional Friday course in the Palatinate.

* Palette AOC ; the little village of Palete, four kilometres east of Aix-en-Provence, has long been famous for the production of a vin cuit, or fortified wine, used in the traditional Provence Christmas dessert, the Thirteen desserts, and the Christmas cake called pompo à l ' oli, or the olive-oil pump.

* Dundee Cake, traditional Scottish fruit cake with a rich flavour

Fánk is a sweet traditional Hungarian cake.

A deep-fried Twinkie involves freezing the cake, dipping it into batter, and deep-frying it to create a variation on the traditional snack cake.

The tea is generally served in traditional small cups, with little cookies during the week and cake during special occasions or on weekends as a special treat.

, also known as, is a traditional Japanese steamed cake made of rice flour and sugar.

* Kuglóf ( Kuglóf cake, a traditional Austro-Hungarian coffee party cake )

Parris, Mary Sibly ( aunt of the afflicted Mary Walcott ), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a witch cake, using traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls.

* Htoe mont (), glutinous rice cake with raisins, cashews and coconut shavings, is a traditional dessert for special occasions.

It is used to make mochi, a traditional rice cake prepared for the Japanese New Year but also eaten year-round.

In northern Nigeria, it is used with millet powder to prepare kunun tsamiya, a traditional pap mostly used as breakfast, and usually eaten with bean cake.

The number of Chinese business on the Avenue has been on the increase and on the ground level alone in Aug 2007, there are 2 traditional Chinese medicine practices, 5 Chinese restaurants, 3 Chinese supermarkets, 3 Chinese travel agents, 2 Chinese Mobile phone outlets, 1 Chinese cake shop, 2 Chinese Hair salons, 1 Chinese fishmonger, 1 Chinese Newsagent, 1 Chinese bureau de change and 3 Chinese banks.

Inside each cake, however, was inserted a piece of paper with the message: " Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month " ( traditional Chinese: 八月十五殺韃子 ; simplified Chinese: 八月十五杀鞑子 ).

The traditional recipe makes a cake much larger than most families can consume, and so the quantity is often changed to suit the size of the cake that is desired.

As long as the ratio is preserved, the resulting cake will be identical to that using the traditional recipe.