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I am looking to gain some information on consumption trends of American Cities. I would like to know what city consumes the most in various genres of food per capita.
Italian
Greek
Mexican
Soul Food
Chinese
Japanese/Sushi
BBQ
French
Other
I think NY/Philly/Boston/Chi are probably #1 on the italian. West Coast is bigger on the Japanese Sushi... Texas/New Mex/Arizona/California are king in mexican. BBQ the south reigns supreme. New Orleans is the king for french quasi creole cuisine, chinese I would say SF/Vancouver(not america but...) Greek... probably NY and Chicago, possibly south fl b/c of retirees.
Don't know about consumption of all those ethnic foods. That data may be hard to locate.
But a quick internet search revealed some interesting claims. Mind you, few (if any) of these claims are referenced. But they are fun reading.
A list of foods, and the US cities with the supposed highest consumption per capita:
veal- New Orleans
beer- Newark
coffee- Pittsburgh
chili- Cincinnati
ice cream- Boston
hot dogs- Los Angeles
Twinkies- Chicago
cranberries- Boston
cheese dip- Little Rock
Jello- Salt Lake City
Campbell's chicken noodle soup-Louisville
cheese- Cincinnati
grits- St George, SC
organic food- Boulder, CO
Pepsi- Pikeville, KY
alcohol- both San Francisco and Key West are mentioned
[quote=bchris02;16722183]I am looking to gain some information on consumption trends of American Cities. I would like to know what city consumes the most in various genres of food per capita.
Italian - The obvious cities of NYC, Boston and Chicago as well as offbeat choices like Providence, Baltimore and New Haven.
Greek - Chicago, Detroit and Astoria-Queens NYC
Mexican - Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth and many more
Soul Food - too many to mention and not geographic. Wherever there is a well-established, thriving African-American community.
Chinese - real Chinese versus bastardized American = San Francisco, LA, Seattle, NYC
Japanese/Sushi - pretty much any progressive, upscale section of a modern US city.
BBQ - The BBQ capitals are Memphis, Kansas City, Dallas and Lexington NC. Barbeque is a hot concept in many cities right now.
French - like Sushi it can be found in most progressive food cities. The standouts would probably be San Francisco and NYC.
Other - Spanish/Tapas/Small Plates is the new "concept" that won't die.
Don't know about consumption of all those ethnic foods. That data may be hard to locate.
But a quick internet search revealed some interesting claims. Mind you, few (if any) of these claims are referenced. But they are fun reading.
A list of foods, and the US cities with the supposed highest consumption per capita:
veal- New Orleans
beer- Newark
coffee- Pittsburgh
chili- Cincinnati
ice cream- Boston
hot dogs- Los Angeles
Twinkies- Chicago
cranberries- Boston
cheese dip- Little Rock
Jello- Salt Lake City
Campbell's chicken noodle soup-Louisville
cheese- Cincinnati
grits- St George, SC
organic food- Boulder, CO
Pepsi- Pikeville, KY
alcohol- both San Francisco and Key West are mentioned
how about pizza, starbucks and biscuits per capita.
When I moved to the DC area, I was shocked at the lack of availability of green salads at local restaurants - when they are available, they tend to be some sort of savory Italian-style thing. Actually, the kinds of bakery-cafe-bistro places that would serve little funky salads (with dressings pulled conceptually from all sorts of world cuisines, random fruit scattered on top, etc.) and such are oddly missing in the suburban areas here. Ironically, fusion-y, new American-y salads are more readily available in upscale parts of cities (and their suburbs) that most Mid-Atlantic people/Northeasterners would think of as <start nasal NJ-type accent> 'steak 'n' potato' types of places </end faux NJ accent>, like KCMO (and -KS), than they are in the more upscale DC suburbs. (You should see the way they bow down to the great god Panera [at St. Louis-based chain, formerly known as the St. Louis Bread Company even outside of the St. Louis metro] around here.. before I moved to the DC suburbs, I thought of Panera as 'fast food,' more or less (which it is). I'm beginning to think (and from a technical/food industry standpoint, it's actually sort of true) that everything west of Ohio (roughly speaking, of course) is one ginormous food market with roughly similar trends, etc. (assuming of course that you control for things like the socioeconomic level of the particular area in consideration), and a big part of the NE (the Mid-Atlantic core, primarily) is another one. I'm not going to comment on the 'deep South' or New England right now, since my experience of them (from a [day-to-day] culinary point of view) is relatively minimal (especially the latter).
I am looking to gain some information on consumption trends of American Cities. I would like to know what city consumes the most in various genres of food per capita.
Italian
Greek
Mexican
Soul Food
Chinese
Japanese/Sushi
BBQ
French
Other
The DC area doesn't seem to have any particular food preference as far as I know. It's all of these plus many others. The more variety the merrier seems to be the spirit.
how about pizza, starbucks and biscuits per capita.
The latter are hartsfield Int'l
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