In Russian cuisine lot of tasty original soups: cabbage soup, borsch, ear.As 
There are complex baking type of pie.
In American kitchen simple food reign beans, maize. A lot of baking with fruit and chocolate. And as a matter of American cuisine in General there are no, there are different cultures have made their own.
Similarity - the final product is considered to be food.
Differences in American kitchen the final product may be considered to be a meal only with the big stretch.As Russian cuisine-it is always useful,sometimes вкусно.Американская is always useless,never good.