After all, it's basically a close cousin of pâtés ... For everyone else, it's an easy way to transform the way you think about meatloaf. Look at enough North American meatloaf recipes and you'll ...

As such, few dishes feel more American than a meatloaf. Only ... Meatloaf's origins aren't American at all. Though American meatloaf descends from German settlers making scrapple -- a pork loaf ...

The immediate ancestor of scrapple was the Low German dish Pangas, which was adapted to use locally available ingredients ...