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Prepared Foods

Spaghetti Omelette Sandwich

It's three meals in one!

Maasai men collecting blood from the neck of a cow.

Meats & Animal Products

Cow Blood

Drinking fresh blood is both sacred and ordinary for the Maasai people.

Nsenene ready to be fried in their own oil.

Meats & Animal Products

Nsenene

This grasshopper snack is crispy like fried chicken.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Drinks

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

A Gatsby piled high with calamari and chips.

Prepared Foods

Gatsby

This Cape Town sandwich is as extravagant as a certain literary character.

Seattle Teriyaki

Prepared Foods

Seattle Teriyaki

This once-ubiquitous fusion dish is fading into obscurity.

A brain sandwich from the Hilltop Inn in Evansville, Indiana.

Prepared Foods

Fried Brain Sandwich

Only a handful of restaurants still serve the retro Midwestern meal.

Amish Funeral Pie

Sweets

Amish Funeral Pie

So sweet you forget to cry.

Gooey, melted cheese is characteristic of the steamed cheeseburger.

Prepared Foods

Steamed Cheeseburger

For a juicier burger, steam it like a vegetable.

Swirls of melcocha.

Sweets

Melcocha

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

Some prefer Trits straight from the tub.

Sweets

Trits

Costa Rica's iconic ice cream tub contains indescribably addictive cookies.

Vigorón

Prepared Foods

Vigorón

The signature dish of “the Crazy Woman” and the city of Granada.

Kak'ik

Prepared Foods

Kak'ik

The ancestral soup of the Q’eqchi’ Maya packs heat and history.

Chile Cobanero

Ingredients & Condiments

Chile Cobanero

This signature pepper has been a hot commodity since the Maya era.

"Under the Sea" Jell-O Salad Recipe

Prepared Foods

Jell-O Salad

Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.

A close-up of lamprey meat.

Meats & Animal Products

Lamprey

A prehistoric sea monster sucks blood, then gets cooked in its own.

Sausages ready to sizzle in the sauna.

Gastro

Sauna Sausage

In Finland, you sizzle along with your meal.

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.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

A layer-by-layer look at the colorful salad.

Prepared Foods

Herring Under a Fur Coat

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

Spit cake in progress.

Sweets

Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

Slices of fresh hverabrauð.

Prepared Foods

Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

Clarified milk punch made from Hennessy, plum liqueur, hazelnut liqueur, sherry, orgeat, lemon, orange, poppy, cinnamon, vanilla, and coffee.

Drinks

Clarified Milk Punch

Just so we’re clear, there is actually milk in this old English punch.

Hanging tomatoes before they're picked.

Fruits & Vegetables

Hanging Tomatoes

This tomato variety can stay fresh for six months after harvesting.

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