1. Southern United States

2. The cuisine of the Southern United States is influenced by African, English, Scottish, Irish, AfricanEnglishScottishIrish FrenchFrench, Spanish, and Native American cuisines.SpanishNative American

3. Tidewater cuisine, which was influenced by the Native Americans who taught European settlers to plant corn and introduced them to native squashes, plums, berries, greens, game, and seafood, including fish and oysters. It’s easiest to divide Southern cuisine into the following categories:

4. Low Country cuisine, which was also influenced by the warmer climate and rice plantations combined with the busy port of Charleston, where pickles and relishes of the warmer climates became standard fare. Creole cuisine, which is the blending of French grand cuisine principles with the cooking techniques of the enslaved Africans. Cajun, which is a style of cooking from the swamps and bayous of southwestern Louisiana.