Foods amyemanuel Has Tried

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

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

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

Idaho's fried specialty makes steak a finger food.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

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

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.

A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.

On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

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

In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

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

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.

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

Catalan chefs transform the slimy, bottom-feeding sea cucumber into subtle, succulent meat.