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Swiss-American Foodways

Diaspora

Swiss settlement in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and beyond: New Glarus and the Glarner colony, American Swiss cheese and Baby Swiss, Kรคsknรถpfle and Sunday baking kept in families, and festivals that preserve a nineteenth-century Switzerland rather than the current one. โš  Not the same as modern Swiss food, and it never was.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Swiss-Americans community documented

What is recorded

  • Swiss-American food preserves a nineteenth-century emigrant Switzerland and has developed for a century and a half in North America. It is recorded as its own tradition, related to Swiss foodways rather than identical to it. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    Swiss emigration to Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana carried cheese-making and baking into an American food culture that changed both.

Recipes

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