Foods apojudy Has Tried

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

This bird comes with a brew inside.

These detailed, dainty confections are made by hand with minimal tools.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

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

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.

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

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

Coke spiked with aromatic spirits of ammonia was once used to treat everything from hangovers to indigestion.

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.