San Francisco Food
Research Paper 11/5/13 There are many cities that have influenced the cuisine of the United States. One of these cites is San Francisco. San Francisco has a land area of about forty seven square miles. The city has an estimated 2012 population of 825,863, giving it a density of about 17,620 people per square mile. Thus making san Francisco the densest city in California, and the second densest in the united states behind New York New York. In 1906 three quarters of the city was destroyed by a devastating earthquake. San Francisco was quickly rebuilt and is now the forty fourth biggest tourist destination in the world. San Francisco which is Spanish for Saint Francis was founded is the June of 1776, when colonist from Spain built a fort at the golden gate. The gold rush in 1849 also brought extreme rapid growth which made it the largest city on the west coast at the time. During the second world war san Francisco was a major port for the military to embark the troops to the pacific theater. Like many cites its food is influenced by its geography. San Francisco is located on the west coast right on the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco is a peninsula of the same name. San Francisco is also famous for its rolling hills. There are more than 50 hills within the city limits alone. Some of the neighborhoods are named after the hill in which they sit upon, including Nob Hill, Potrero Hill, and Russian Hill. Near the geographic center of the city, southwest of the downtown area, are a series of less densely populated hills. A pair of hills forms one of the cites highest point called the twin peaks. The tallest point in the city is mount Davidson; it is nine hundred and twenty five feet tall with a one hundred and three foot cross on top of it which was built 1934. In 1906 the great earthquake destroyed most of the city. This is due to san Francisco sitting along two major fault lines. The San Andrea’s fault and Hayward fault. San Francisco's