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America's Melting Pot
Arby's-Style Horsey Sauce photo coming soon
1946-1969
Arby's-Style Horsey Sauce is a sandwich sauce with real American table personality: Fast-food horseradish mayo tradition. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
America's Melting Pot
Arepa Sandwiches photo coming soon
2010-2026
A street-food arepa sandwich filled with avocado chicken salad, black beans, cheese, and bright lime, built for the American food-truck table while respecting its Venezuelan and Colombian roots.
1990-2009
A basic arepa recipe made with masarepa, water, salt, and a hot skillet, ready to eat plain, buttered, cheesed, or split for fillings.
America's Melting Pot
Army Bean Soup photo coming soon
1861-1900
A hearty military-style bean soup built on navy beans, smoked ham hock, onion, celery, carrot, and bay leaf, adapted for a home pot from large-batch service traditions.
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Army Chili photo coming soon
1930-1945
A practical ground-beef chili with beans, tomatoes, onion, chili powder, cumin, and paprika, adapted from Armed Forces chili con carne formulas for a family pot.
Before 1776
A Puerto Rican arroz con gandules made in one pot with medium-grain rice, pigeon peas, sofrito, sazon, pork, olives, and a patient steam for fluffy grains and coveted pegao.
America's Melting Pot
Artichoke Dip photo coming soon
Cross-era
Artichoke Dip is a party dip with real American table personality: California-to-suburban-party-table classic. It brings flavor from California, Hawaii, and the West Coast to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
America's Melting Pot
Asadero-style American-made Melting Cheese photo coming soon
American Dairy Age
Asadero-style American-made Melting Cheese is a fresh stretched-curd cheese with pasteurized milk, measured acid, rennet setting, hot stretching, salting, and short refrigerated storage.
America's Melting Pot
Ash Cakes photo coming soon
1776-1800
A plain cornmeal-and-water ash cake inspired by Revolutionary-era field cooking, adapted for a skillet or campfire with salt and a little fat for modern eatability.
America's Melting Pot
Asparagus photo coming soon
1800-1860
A bright American Easter asparagus side, quickly cooked and dressed with lemon butter, herbs, and hard-cooked egg in the spirit of old spring-table recipes.
America's Melting Pot
Au Jus photo coming soon
Gilded Age & Progressive Era
Au Jus is a sandwich sauce with real American table personality: French name, but American diner/roadhouse French dip culture. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
America's Melting Pot
Auntie Anne's-Style Pretzel Bites photo coming soon
1970-1989
A homemade mall-style pretzel bite recipe with yeast dough, a baking-soda dip, coarse salt, and a generous butter finish.
America's Melting Pot
Avgolemono Soup photo coming soon
1900-1929
A silky Greek-American chicken, rice, egg, and lemon soup made by tempering eggs into hot broth for a creamy dairy-free finish.
America's Melting Pot
Avocado Ranch photo coming soon
Modern Melting Pot
Avocado Ranch is a dressing with real American table personality: Modern Southwest-American variation. It brings flavor from the American South to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
1990-2009
Avocado Smoothie brings juice-bar color and American smoothie-counter energy to the glass: American health-food version, with global roots.
2010-2026
A simple avocado toast with lemon, olive oil, chile flakes, and flaky salt, framed as a California and internet-era food with much older roots.
America's Melting Pot
Awful Awful photo coming soon
Postwar & Diner Age
Awful Awful celebrates New England dairy-bar pride in a cold glass: Rhode Island/New England ice milk shake tradition.
1990-2009
A chain-era and backyard-friendly baby back rib recipe using a dry rub, low oven cooking, barbecue sauce, and a final uncovered glaze.
American Dairy Age
Baby Swiss is a home-scale Swiss-style American cheese with thermophilic culture, propionic culture, pressing, brining, and controlled warm-room eye development.
America's Melting Pot
Backyard BBQ Ribs photo coming soon
2010-2026
A backyard-style pork rib recipe with a brown-sugar spice rub, low indirect heat, apple juice, and a sticky barbecue sauce glaze.
America's Melting Pot
Bacon Dressing / Hot Bacon Dressing photo coming soon
Frontier & Expansion
Bacon Dressing / Hot Bacon Dressing is a dressing with real American table personality: Pennsylvania Dutch and Midwestern spinach salad dressing. It brings flavor from Appalachia and Pennsylvania Dutch country to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
America's Melting Pot
Bacon Jam photo coming soon
Modern Melting Pot
Bacon Jam is a preserve with real American table personality: Modern American burger/brunch condiment. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
2010-2026
A griddled burger topped with homemade bacon jam, sharp cheese, arugula, and a toasted bun, inspired by the modern food-truck burger boom.
America's Melting Pot
Bacon Maple Shake photo coming soon
1900-1929
Bacon Maple Shake brings drive-in, carhop, and fast-food dessert-counter energy to the table: 2010s novelty diner/chain flavor.
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