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calton

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Red-Eye Gravy

Ingredients & Condiments

Red-Eye Gravy

Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.

Taiyaki

Sweets

Taiyaki

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

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

Pizza Ebraica

Sweets

Pizza Ebraica

This cookie is found only in Rome's Jewish quarter.

Nanaimo Bar

Sweets

Nanaimo Bar

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

Pocari Sweat

Drinks

Pocari Sweat

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

Steam Beer

Drinks

Steam Beer

The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.

A bowl of chitlins.

Prepared Foods

Chitlins

These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.

At the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the tips of garlic ice cream cones look like mini bulbs.

Sweets

Garlic Ice Cream

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

A Hangtown Fry is the true breakfast of champions.

Prepared Foods

Hangtown Fry

This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.

It's It

Sweets

It's It

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

Malasadas

Sweets

Malasadas

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

Sarde in Saor

Prepared Foods

Sarde in Saor

Venetians celebrate the end of a 16th-century plague with sweet and sour sardines.

Wagashi

Sweets

Wagashi

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

A seafood okonomiyaki topped with bonito flakes

Prepared Foods

Okonomiyaki

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

Tofu, scallion, and narutomaki soup.

Meats & Animal Products

Narutomaki

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Ramune comes in a wide variety of flavors, including peach and Hawaiian Blue.

Drinks

Ramune

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

Nattō

Prepared Foods

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

Omurice

Prepared Foods

Omurice

Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.

Takoyaki

Prepared Foods

Takoyaki

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

Real Wasabi

Ingredients & Condiments

Real Wasabi

Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.

Japanese Navy Curry

Prepared Foods

Japanese Navy Curry

This curry celebrates Japan's maritime history.

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