Southerners often use a cornbread stuffing that originated from a dish called kush, cooked by slaves brought from North and West Africa. In places like the Northwest, holiday stuffing can include Native American wild rice.

Who invented stuffing?

Ruth M. Siems, Inventor of Stuffing, Dies at 74 - The New York Times.

Where did stuffing first come from?

Evidence suggests in Ancient Rome and throughout the Middle East that people put bread, spices, and all kinds of other goodies into the cavity of a bird before roasting. By the 1500s, Medieval Brits were calling this seasoned mixture (or whatever a bird was “crammed” with) stuffing—also known as forcemeat.