Fruits & Vegetables
Umeboshi
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Sweets
Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Sweets
Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.
Sweets
Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.
Sweets
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!
Drinks
A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.
Prepared Foods
These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.
Ingredients & Condiments
In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.
Sweets
In the city of Celaya, goat's milk caramel tops everything from ice cream to cereal.
Sweets
Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Prepared Foods
To some, the soup's greens represent key moments of the crucifixion.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Sweets
This sweet treat is so beloved in Hong Kong, it inspired an animated movie.
Sweets
Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.
Prepared Foods
Breaded and fried, these testicles become tasty tenders.
Sweets
The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Ingredients & Condiments
A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.
Prepared Foods
Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
Meats & Animal Products
Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.