For more than three centuries, German immigrants and their descendants have helped shape American cooking, even as the dishes’ origins gradually became less visible. Some recipes became so deeply rooted that, during World War I, Americans sometimes gave them new names instead of abandoning them. This National German-American Day, it is a fitting moment to revisit the dishes that never really disappeared.
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