I just read an article from the latest edition of TIME about eggs. Joel Stein (if you've never read his stuff, you really should because it's hilarious) talks about how more and more restaurants these days are using eggs in dinner foods now, and it comes from the heavy Spanish influence that seems to have currently taken over the trendiest of all trendy restaurants. He also talks about how in European and Asian cuisine, eggs have appeared in dinner foods for awhile, and he goes on to name random things (two of those things happen to be Korean, thank you very much). He goes on to talk about how eggs have been considered not so great for you, especially raw, but now that's changed, blah, blah, blah.

After reading the article, I started to wonder what exactly "American cuisine" is. What has America contributed to the culinary world? Hamburgers? Hot dogs? Those things seem so "ehh..." compared to tapas from Spain, the countless numbers of pasta dishes from Italy and Szechuan anything from China. It seems like everything has been derived from everyone else's cooking. I guess that makes sense since this country was founded on immigrants and it's considered a melting pot. But can't we come up with something a little more sophisticated and complex than buffalo wings?