Drinks
Palm Springs Date Shakes
The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.
Gastro
These natural cocktail stirrers sprout from the Caribbean swizzlestick tree.
Sweets
In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.
Prepared Foods
What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Gastro
To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Gastro
The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”
Prepared Foods
The lye-soaked fish recipe created by Vikings is now a holiday favorite at Midwestern church dinners.
Meats & Animal Products
This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Drinks
This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Prepared Foods
Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Prepared Foods
Battered and fried testicles make use of a cattle-country surplus.
Prepared Foods
This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Meats & Animal Products
Touted as the original energy bar, the bison-based mixture kept for months.