York County, Pennsylvania
York County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 434,972. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.
York County comprises the York-Hanover, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.
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1886 Dunkard Valley Road Loganville, PA 17342
WOW -one of the remaining farms with Dwelling Rights & not in the Farm Trust. 114 acre dairy farm w/a stream and a full stone barn built in 1785. The strong solar exposures & beautiful hillside provide for top quality homesites. The farm is zoned for 7 homesites/building rights. Near MD & Only 25 minutes to Hunt Valley.
The Great Wolf Lodge
- Great Wolf Resorts is the world's largest chain of indoor water parks. The company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to a water park, each resort features specialty restaurants, arcades, spas, fitness rooms and children's activity areas. This video was taken at the Charlotte/Concord, NC location.
Locations are in Wisconsin Dells, WI, Sandusky, OH, Traverse City, MI, Kansas City, KS, Williamsburg, VA, Pocono Mountains, PA, Niagara Falls, ON, Mason, OH, Grapevine, TX, Grand Mound, WA, Charlotte/Concord, NC.
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Garden Grove, California, Tarentum, Pennsylvania, New Baltimore, New York, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Giving new meaning to the term year-round family resort, Great Wolf Lodge defies the weather outside with an indoor waterpark experience that has young and old soaking in the fun!
Whether it's 10 degrees below or raining cats and dogs, it's always a balmy 84 degrees inside the resort's huge, 56,000 square-foot indoor waterpark. Bear Track Landing, on of America's largest indoor waterparks, puts the emphasis on fun with six waterslides, three pools and a four-story treehouse water fort. The state-of-the-art facility utilizes nearly 340,000 gallons of water that is splashed, sprayed, waved and played in by both kids and parents alike.
Bear Track Landing is an ideal escape for both parents and kids, offering an environment that allows for both bonding together-time and safe, supervised yet independent kid-friendly fun that gives parents time to relax with children in sight.
In the Kitchen with David | November 6, 2019
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In the Kitchen with Mary | November 16, 2019
| Watch Mary DeAngelis whip up some of her favorite, easy-to-prepare recipes (including gluten-free ones!) with cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and gourmet food from some of QVC's most-popular brands. Get in on the foodie action as she shares these recipes ideas and much more.
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United States cuisine | Wikipedia audio article
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United States cuisine
00:02:15 1 History
00:02:23 1.1 Pre-colonial cuisine
00:02:32 1.1.1 Seafood
00:03:31 1.1.2 Cooking methods
00:04:46 1.2 Colonial period
00:06:53 1.2.1 Common ingredients
00:08:20 1.2.1.1 Livestock and game
00:09:19 1.2.1.2 Fats and oils
00:10:00 1.2.1.3 Alcoholic drinks
00:10:58 1.2.1.4 Southern variations
00:11:54 1.3 Post-colonial cuisine
00:12:29 1.4 20th-century American farmhouse
00:15:57 1.5 Modern cuisine
00:16:22 1.5.1 Processed food
00:18:52 1.5.2 Ethnic influences
00:21:09 1.5.3 New American
00:21:42 2 Regional cuisines
00:22:12 2.1 Northeast
00:22:21 2.1.1 New England
00:31:36 2.1.2 Delaware Valley and Mid-Atlantic
00:46:52 2.2 Midwest
00:56:25 2.3 Southern United States
00:58:52 2.3.1 Early history
01:00:49 2.3.2 Common features
01:01:32 2.3.3 Desserts
01:02:31 2.3.4 Cajun cuisine
01:06:27 2.3.5 African American influences
01:07:40 2.3.6 Florida cuisine
01:11:26 2.3.7 Other small game
01:11:57 2.4 Cuisine in the West
01:12:47 2.4.1 Northwest
01:16:24 2.4.2 Southwest and Southern California
01:28:43 2.5 Pacific and Hawaiian cuisine
01:32:22 2.6 Common dishes found on a regional level
01:32:32 3 Ethnic and immigrant influence
01:35:42 3.1 Early ethnic influences
01:38:14 3.2 Later ethnic and immigrant influence
01:40:40 4 Notable American chefs
01:42:26 5 See also
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American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous Dutch and British cuisines. The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods. Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1890s–1920s, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles. A wave of celebrity chefs began with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels, such as the Food Network and Cooking Channel, in the late 20th century.
United States Regional Cuisine | Wikipedia audio article
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United States Regional Cuisine
00:02:15 1 History
00:02:23 1.1 Pre-colonial cuisine
00:02:32 1.1.1 Seafood
00:03:31 1.1.2 Cooking methods
00:04:46 1.2 Colonial period
00:06:53 1.2.1 Common ingredients
00:08:20 1.2.1.1 Livestock and game
00:09:19 1.2.1.2 Fats and oils
00:10:00 1.2.1.3 Alcoholic drinks
00:10:58 1.2.1.4 Southern variations
00:11:54 1.3 Post-colonial cuisine
00:12:29 1.4 20th-century American farmhouse
00:15:57 1.5 Modern cuisine
00:16:22 1.5.1 Processed food
00:18:52 1.5.2 Ethnic influences
00:21:09 1.5.3 New American
00:21:42 2 Regional cuisines
00:22:12 2.1 Northeast
00:22:21 2.1.1 New England
00:31:36 2.1.2 Delaware Valley and Mid-Atlantic
00:46:52 2.2 Midwest
00:56:25 2.3 Southern United States
00:58:52 2.3.1 Early history
01:00:49 2.3.2 Common features
01:01:32 2.3.3 Desserts
01:02:31 2.3.4 Cajun cuisine
01:06:27 2.3.5 African American influences
01:07:40 2.3.6 Florida cuisine
01:11:26 2.3.7 Other small game
01:11:57 2.4 Cuisine in the West
01:12:47 2.4.1 Northwest
01:16:24 2.4.2 Southwest and Southern California
01:28:43 2.5 Pacific and Hawaiian cuisine
01:32:22 2.6 Common dishes found on a regional level
01:32:32 3 Ethnic and immigrant influence
01:35:42 3.1 Early ethnic influences
01:38:14 3.2 Later ethnic and immigrant influence
01:40:40 4 Notable American chefs
01:42:26 5 See also
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American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous Dutch and British cuisines. The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods. Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1890s–1920s, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles. A wave of celebrity chefs began with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels, such as the Food Network and Cooking Channel, in the late 20th century.
Catalysts Episode 1: Brenda Wintermyer
In Episode 1 of our “Catalysts” series, we chat with Brenda Wintermyer of Just Brenda Art. We’ll share the stories about how she turned down a job with a famous greeting card company, what led her to open her first studio in her 50s, and how an early vision of York came to be.
“Catalysts” is a production of Our York Media. The project was funded in part by the YorIt Social Venture Challenge Grant from the York County Community Foundation. Our title sponsor is York College of Pennsylvania Center for Community Engagement with support from Stock and Leader Attorneys at Law. This show is hosted by Rebecca Hanlon and produced by Will Hanlon and Caleb Robertson.
For more information, visit OurYorkMedia.com/Catalysts.
September 10
September 10 is the 253rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.
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List of foods named after people | Wikipedia audio article
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List of foods named after people
00:00:05 1 A
00:04:23 2 B
00:10:43 3 C
00:15:59 4 D
00:19:55 5 E
00:21:14 6 F
00:22:15 7 G
00:25:32 8 H
00:28:53 9 I
00:29:22 10 J
00:33:03 11 K
00:35:49 12 L
00:41:00 13 M
00:49:34 14 N
00:51:53 15 O
00:54:37 16 P
00:59:12 17 Q
00:59:58 18 R
01:05:55 19 S
01:11:29 20 T
01:13:43 21 U
01:14:16 22 V
01:16:33 23 W
01:19:31 24 X
01:20:14 25 Y
01:20:34 26 Food-related
01:20:45 27 See also
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Stare Into The Lights My Pretties
We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next if this culture is left unchecked, to its end trajectory, and is that what we want? *Stare Into The Lights My Pretties* investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behaviour modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleeprunning into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world.
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SEGMENTS
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:04:03 - “Progress”
0:16:58 - No Accident
0:23:10 - Mindset (Screen Culture)
0:51:12 - It’s All About Me!
1:10:48 - The Megamachine
1:16:52 - Creeping Normalcy
1:33:02 - Vegged Out
1:39:43 - It’s Full of Sugar and It Tastes So Nice
1:56:50 - The Real World
2:06:13 - Credits
VOICES
Susan Greenfield, Katina Michael, Derrick Jensen, Lelia Green, Roger Clarke, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, Douglas Rushkoff, Lewis Mumford, Eli Pariser, Andrew Keen, Clifford Nass, Rebecca Mackinnon, Bruce Schneier, Jerry Mander, Jeff Chester.
CREDITS
Written and Directed by Jordan Brown. Original camera by Jordan Brown, Masao Tamaoki and James Tomalin. Music by Jore, Sigur Rós, The Cinematic Orchestra, Ólafur Arnalds, Bonobo, Soundsource, Bzaurie, Clark, Rollmottle, Ma Spaventi, Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Eunoia and Seame Campbell.
Additional footage credit where credit is due is made out to respective creators, some of whom are: Em Styles, Katerina Vittozzi, Eric De Lavarène, Isabelle Delannoy, Brian Frank, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Ivan Cash, Yordan Zhechev, Ron Fricke, Monika Fleishmann, Raymond Delacruz, Rob Featherstone, Michael Mcsweeney, Juan Falgueras, Trevor Hedge, Jean Counet, David Kleijwegt, Godfrey Reggio, Naomi Ture, Chris Zobl, Siddharth Hirwani, Melly Lee, Refik Anadol, Marc Homs, Schnellebuntebilder, Kyle Littlejohn, Tobias Gremmler, Marina Wanderlust, Kristopher Lee, Brandon Johnson, Nicolas Fevrier, Judd Frazier, Ben Stevens, David Fedele, Frank Wiering, Rob Mcbride, Vido Yuandao, Justine Ezarik, David Machado Santos, Vasco Sotomaior, Wolfgang Strauss, Kornhaber Brown, Matthew Epler, James Kwan, China Techy, BigThink, Gigaom, Inc. Magazine, The Guardian, TED, TEDx, BBC, ABC, CNN, Indymedia; and all further credit where credit is due for unknown or unattributed creators whose work appears.
Content creators and/or participants may or may not agree with the views expressed in this film, which was made with no budget, not-for-profit, and is released to the world for free for the purposes of critical discourse, education, and for cultivating radical social and political change.
In the Kitchen with Mary | November 9, 2019
| Watch Mary DeAngelis whip up some of her favorite, easy-to-prepare recipes (including gluten-free ones!) with cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and gourmet food from some of QVC's most-popular brands. Get in on the foodie action as she shares these recipes ideas and much more.
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Report on ESP / Cops and Robbers / The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
Extrasensory perception (ESP) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition. ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct or hunch, which are historical English idioms. It is also sometimes referred to as intuition. The term implies acquisition of information by means external to the basic limiting assumptions of science, such as that organisms can only receive information from the past to the present.
Parapsychology is the pseudoscientific[1] study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including ESP. Parapsychologists generally regard such tests as the ganzfeld experiment as providing compelling evidence for the existence of ESP. The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain ESP, and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results.
Vincent Jimmy Blue Eyes Alo (May 26, 1904 -- March 9, 2001) was a New York mobster and member of the Genovese crime family who set up casino operations with mob associate Meyer Lansky in Florida and Cuba.
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Role of Christianity in civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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The role of Christianity in civilization has been intricately intertwined with the history and formation of Western society. Throughout its long history, the Church has been a major source of social services like schooling and medical care; inspiration for art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in politics and religion. In various ways it has sought to affect Western attitudes to vice and virtue in diverse fields. Festivals like Easter and Christmas are marked as public holidays; the Gregorian Calendar has been adopted internationally as the civil calendar; and the calendar itself is measured from the date of Jesus's birth.
The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Church scholars preserved literacy in Western Europe following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, the Church rose to replace the Roman Empire as the unifying force in Europe. The cathedrals of that age remain among the most iconic feats of architecture produced by Western civilization. Many of Europe's universities were also founded by the church at that time. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries. The university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting, born from Cathedral schools. The Reformation brought an end to religious unity in the West, but the Renaissance masterpieces produced by Catholic artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at that time remain among the most celebrated works of art ever produced. Similarly, Christian sacred music by composers like Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Verdi is among the most admired classical music in the Western canon.
The Bible and Christian theology have also strongly influenced Western philosophers and political activists. The teachings of Jesus, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, are among the important sources for modern notions of Human Rights and the welfare measures commonly provided by governments in the West. Long held Christian teachings on sexuality and marriage and family life have also been both influential and (in recent times) controversial. Christianity played a role in ending practices such as human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy. Christianity in general affected the status of women by condemning marital infidelity, divorce, incest, polygamy, birth control, infanticide (female infants were more likely to be killed), and abortion. While official Church teaching considers women and men to be complementary (equal and different), some modern advocates of ordination of women and other feminists argue that teachings attributed to St. Paul and those of the Fathers of the Church and Scholastic theologians advanced the notion of a divinely ordained female inferiority. Nevertheless, women have played prominent roles in Western history through and as part of the church, particularly in education and healthcare, but also as influential theologians and mystics.
Christians have made a myriad contributions to human progress in a broad and diverse range of fields, both historically and in modern times, including the science and technology, medicine, fine arts and architecture, politics, literatures, Music, philanthropy, philosophy, ethics, theatre and business. According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference. Eastern Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) have also contributed to the Arab Islamic Civilization during the Ummayad and the Abbasid periods by translating works of Greek philosophers to Syriac and afterwards to Arabic. They also excelled in philosophy, science, theolo ...
September 11 attacks | Wikipedia audio article
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The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Additional people died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks.
Four passenger airliners operated by two major U.S. passenger air carriers (United Airlines and American Airlines)—all of which departed from airports in the northeastern United States bound for California—were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed. Debris and the resulting fires caused a partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, which led to a partial collapse of the building's west side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was initially flown toward Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers thwarted the hijackers. 9/11 is the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed, respectively.
Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda. The United States responded by launching the War on Terror and invaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had failed to comply with U.S. demands to extradite Osama bin Laden and expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan. Many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks. Although al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, initially denied any involvement, in 2004 he claimed responsibility for the attacks. Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. After evading capture for almost a decade, Osama bin Laden was located and killed in Pakistan by SEAL Team Six of the U.S. Navy in May 2011.
The destruction of the World Trade Center and nearby infrastructure seriously harmed the economy of Lower Manhattan and had a significant effect on global markets, which resulted in the closing of Wall Street until September 17 and the civilian airspace in the U.S. and Canada until September 13. Many closings, evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the World Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, and the Pentagon was repaired within a year. On November 18, 2006, construction of One World Trade Center began at the World Trade Center site. The building was officially opened on November 3, 2014. Numerous memorials have been constructed, including the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Cuisine of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous British cuisine. The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods. Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans developed many new foods. During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1890s–1920s, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles. A wave of celebrity chefs began with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels, such as the Food Network and Cooking Channel, in the late 20th century.