Eilertsen analyzes the way people from other countries think about American food, expecting to find that American food would seem foreign to them. Contrary to her expectation, she concludes that because the United States is such a melting pot of cultures, it is relatively easy for people from other countries to buy and prepare food that is familiar to them. Created by Dorothy Eilertsen when she was enrolled in Jill Terry Rudy's English 495 course in Winter 2002.