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aliseponsero

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2019

Traveler and biologist, I am passionate about discovering new cultures, hiking new trails and learning new languages !
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Foods this traveler has tried.

Sonoran Hot Dog

Prepared Foods

Sonoran Hot Dog

This beloved piece of Mexican-American fusion coats a bacon-wrapped dog in beans, mayo, and jalapeño salsa.

Spit cake in progress.

Sweets

Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Aligot from Le Politique Austin.

Prepared Foods

Aligot

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.

A batch of traditional balsamic vinegar from Acetaia di Giorgio.

Ingredients & Condiments

Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Floating Island

Sweets

Floating Island

The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.

Roudoudous

Sweets

Roudoudous

These French candies originally came in seashells.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Chimney Cake

Sweets

Chimney Cake

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

The cellars where the monks age their liqueur.

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Irn-Bru

Drinks

Irn-Bru

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

Poire Williams

Drinks

Poire Williams

Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.

Pork rillettes.

Prepared Foods

Rillettes

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

Cramaillote

Ingredients & Condiments

Cramaillote

This jelly is made with dandelions and tastes like honey.

Carbonnade à la Flamande

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Carbonnade à la Flamande

Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.

Capezzoli di Venere

Sweets

Capezzoli di Venere

A decadent dessert whose Italian name translates to “nipples of Venus.”

Licorice root for sale at a Spanish market.

Fruits & Vegetables

Licorice Root

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

Bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau in Sonoma, California.

Drinks

Beaujolais Nouveau

When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.

Chouchen

Drinks

Chouchen

Ancient Celtic settlers brought this honey-based drink to Brittany.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

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Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

Most people would just walk by this fruit, rich with history and culinary potential.

Fruits & Vegetables

Strawberry Tree Fruit

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

Cancoillotte

Prepared Foods

Cancoillotte

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

Financiers

Sweets

Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

Kouign-Amann

Sweets

Kouign-Amann

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

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