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Creative Cuisine

Pumpple Cake

Called the turducken of desserts, this multilayered cake hides two pies inside.

A South African Couple Has Turned Elephant Dung Into Award-Winning Gin

Luke Fater November 21, 2019

Anthill Cake

This beloved Russian dessert is the brainchild of Soviet-era housewives with meat grinders.

Vinho dos Mortos

Facing invasion, the small town of Boticas buried their bottles and gave birth to a unique style of wine.

Cougar Gold Cheese

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.

Kartoshka

Soviet cafeterias whipped up this chocolate “potato” to use leftovers.

Pouding Chômeur

During the Great Depression, Canadian women made “unemployed-person pudding.”

A monument to sgushyonka in Rogachev, Belarus, home to a factory that produces it.

Sgushyonka

This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.

City Chicken

The Midwestern mock-poultry classic is fading away.

Peruvian Cylinder

An unassuming oil drum houses a three-tiered oven.

Atrapaniebla, with the camanchaca rolling in behind it.

Fog Beer at Atrapaniebla Brewery

In the Atacama Desert, brewers trap fog moisture to make crisp ales.

Stuffed birds aren't just for Thanksgiving.

Hmong Stuffed Chicken Wings

Next-level egg rolls are wrapped in an entire chicken wing.

Alheira

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

Caciocavallo dell'emigrante

Caciocavallo of the Migrant

To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.

Budae jjigae often includes Korean rice cakes, called garae-tteok.

Budae Jjigae

All is fare in the Korean War.

A set of picklebacks with extra pickle flavor.

Pickleback

A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.

A Gatsby piled high with calamari and chips.

Gatsby

This Cape Town sandwich is as extravagant as a certain literary character.

Taco rice at Jack's Steak House in Naha, Okinawa

Taco Rice

This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.