Sweets
Sponge Candy
This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.
Sweets
This salad named after a scandal has been traced back to Kraft and Helen Keller.
Prepared Foods
This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.
Gastro
At some New Orleans weddings, bridesmaids predict their futures with these hidden charms.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Sweets
This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.
Ingredients & Condiments
Alaska's wildflowers produce this vibrant jelly.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Prepared Foods
This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.
Prepared Foods
This once-ubiquitous fusion dish is fading into obscurity.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.
Gastro
A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Prepared Foods
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Drinks
A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Ingredients & Condiments
It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Fruits & Vegetables
Smells like lavender, tastes like lemon rind, looks like a gnarled claw fresh from your nightmares.