altoringer

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

Now retired, I'm trying to keep my reputation alive as a traveler to exotic places. Well, at least exotic according to my friends. I've ridden a camel in the Gobi Desert, snorkeled with the dolphins in the Azores, climbed a glacier in Patagonia, and tried shark meat in Iceland. Recently I climbed into the Great Pyramid of Giza. One of the highlights of my trip to Madagascar was the chance to see the coelacanth. Not bad for a retired librarian!

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Foods altoringer Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

Fermented horse milk is called airag in Mongolia.

Drinks

Kumis

Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Johnny Marzetti

Prepared Foods

Johnny Marzetti

The casserole with a person's name.

Eccles Cake

Sweets

Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Slices of fresh hverabrauð.

Prepared Foods

Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

Chekich come in a variety of sizes and designs.

Gastro

Chekich

These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.