Ingredients & Condiments
Red-Eye Gravy
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Sweets
This cookie is found only in Rome's Jewish quarter.
Sweets
From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Drinks
The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Sweets
In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.
Prepared Foods
This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.
Sweets
This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?
Sweets
These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.
Prepared Foods
Venetians celebrate the end of a 16th-century plague with sweet and sour sardines.
Sweets
These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Prepared Foods
Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.
Prepared Foods
This curry celebrates Japan's maritime history.