Sweets
Necco Wafers
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Drinks
This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Prepared Foods
This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Gastro
These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Prepared Foods
This unique soup of chicken drippings, vinegar, and cayenne pepper has been a Bradford, Tennessee, favorite for decades.
Sweets
This velvety, vintage treat still has a fan base in Maryland.
Prepared Foods
Baked in traditional adobe hornos, this bread is a staple of the American Southwest's Native Pueblo people.
Food Festivals
This celebration of the largest edible fruit native to the United States features plenty of “pawpawpular” foods.
Drinks
This old American style is being resurrected by Indiana brewers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Popular in colonial New England, this “apple molasses” is now made by only a handful of commercial producers.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Food Festivals
Every year, one tiny Tennessee town celebrates this sugary Southern duo.
Prepared Foods
This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.
Gastro
This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.
Prepared Foods
A Depression-era patty filler paved the way for an Oklahoma favorite.
Gastro
In this summer phenomenon, fish swarm Alabama shores and waterfront residents scoop up the bounty.
Drinks
This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.
Sweets
One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Gastro
In the American South, some believe it deters rain on one's wedding day.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.