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Foods this traveler wants to try.

Sugar Cream Pie

Sweets

Sugar Cream Pie

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

Swirls of melcocha.

Sweets

Melcocha

Pulling gobs of this handmade taffy yields strong arms and a sweet reward.

Guayusa tea with leaves.

Gastro

Guayusa

The Kichwa begin every day with tea and dream interpretation.

Wrapped juanes with plantains, hard-boiled eggs, and olives.

Prepared Foods

Juane

Peru’s leaf-wrapped rice ball might be named after John the Baptist’s decapitated head.

Ranfañote

Sweets

Ranfañote

This vintage dessert of bread, cheese, and syrup nearly disappeared from Peru.

A cup of masato de yuca.

Drinks

Masato de Yuca

A sacred alcoholic drink made from chewed and fermented yuca.

Cooking with big-bottomed ants.

Meats & Animal Products

Big-Bottomed Ants

Catch these fiercely guarded queens for a crunchy, caviar-flavored snack.

Naranjilla

Fruits & Vegetables

Naranjilla

Relatively unknown outside South America, the tart, tomato-like fruit makes beloved juices and cocktails.

King Kong

Sweets

King Kong

The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.

Ají charapita in a market in Tarapoto, Peru. You could buy the whole basket for a few dollars.

Fruits & Vegetables

Ají Charapita

The Peruvian pepper tastes like spicy citrus.

A canelazo made with citrus and cloves.

Drinks

Canelazo

A sweet, warm cocktail to chase away the chill of Andean nights.

Picarones

Sweets

Picarones

The sweet potato donuts are an integral part of the Afro-Peruvian community.

Joe Froggers

Sweets

Joe Froggers

The legend of these rum-and-molasses cookies leads to a New England tavern owned by a Black Revolutionary War veteran.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

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

Kamayan

Gastro

Kamayan

These epic Filipino feasts feature lavish spreads and forego utensils.

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