German food has always been popular in the USA, but never had quite the cachet of French cuisine. French restaurateurs cultivated their reputations for complex and elegant dishes, while German food resembled home cooking – and the resemblance wasn’t an accident. German immigrants shaped American cuisine, most obviously in the Pennsylvania and in Midwest where their favorites became the bedrock of American tradition.[caption id="attachment_48731" align="alignright" width="266" caption="Ge






