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Foods this traveler has tried.

Pawpaw is served.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pawpaw

The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

A selection of deep-fried peanuts.

Prepared Foods

Deep-Fried Peanuts

You eat the shell, too.

A bowl of bird's nest soup, with ladybell root.

Prepared Foods

Bird's Nest Soup

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

Cajeta

Sweets

Cajeta

In the city of Celaya, goat's milk caramel tops everything from ice cream to cereal.

Brunost

Meats & Animal Products

Brunost

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

White BBQ Sauce

Ingredients & Condiments

White BBQ Sauce

In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.

A batch of traditional balsamic vinegar from Acetaia di Giorgio.

Ingredients & Condiments

Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

The cellars where the monks age their liqueur.

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

A Grasshopper ice cream cocktail.

Drinks

Grasshopper

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

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