I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.