American food comes from Britain (where the food was always awful). Add to that a lot of pork loved by half of the Americans coming from Deutschland, cook everything too much and you have American food.
Thanks to French people, Greeks, Italians, Asiatics of various kinds, Arabs, Persians, and Mexicans, we have real food at last -- it is ethnic, what else can you call it? Thanks to Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, the French in the 16th century gave up cooking everything in beer and adopted Italian cooking from Northern Italy; had they not done so, French food would have resembled English food. They also adopted Italian style in clothing and art. They did not need to adopt Italian politics, since politics from the late Roman Empire until today is still going strong as the most ridiculous form of political life ever seen. Mussolini at first, before he went bad like fish, wanted to improve Italian politics, but all he could think of was to beat people over the head and force them to drink castor oil. I guess he thought that since Renaissance Italy was full of popular dictators, he might try that, too. It would have worked fine except for his inexplicable love of Germans. Nevertheless, Italians in large numbers still miss Il Duce.