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Some blues get you down, some blues get you up.

Ingredients & Condiments

Blue-Green Algae

The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.

A butterfly pea cocktail.

Ingredients & Condiments

Butterfly Pea Flower

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.

Bhutanese Red Rice

Ingredients & Condiments

Bhutanese Red Rice

At 8,000 feet above sea level, glacial irrigation produces a unique heirloom grain.

The peyote cactus is cute as a button.

Gastro

Peyote

Mexican and American Indians have a long history with this powerful cactus.

The prickly toloache fruit, with seeds inside.

Gastro

Toloache

The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.

One step in the highly codified Japanese tea ceremony.

Gastro

Japanese Tea Ceremony

A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.

Preparing a batch of ayahuasca tea in Ecuador.

Gastro

Ayahuasca

One vine unlocks the powers of a psychedelic shrub.

The beautiful Brunfelsia grandiflora flower.

Gastro

Chiric Sanango

A vibrant, lesser-known hallucinogen of the Amazon.

Gematogen

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Gematogen

A bloody good candy bar.

Pancake Racing

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Pancake Racing

What better way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday than to run with a pancake-laden skillet?

Addressing the haggis.

Gastro

Burns Supper

Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.

Entierro de la Sardina

Gastro

Entierro de la Sardina

Murcians celebrate the end of Lenten fasting by burning a giant papier-mâché sardine.

Shojin Ryori

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Shojin Ryori

Japan's traditional temple cuisine features meals that are nutritionally and visually balanced.

Nsenene ready to be fried in their own oil.

Meats & Animal Products

Nsenene

This grasshopper snack is crispy like fried chicken.

Pigeons are turned into hamam mahshi at six weeks of age.

Meats & Animal Products

Hamam Mahshi

Egyptian pigeons are raised in special towers, then stuffed and eaten.

Straight out of Bluff, New Zealand.

Meats & Animal Products

Bluff Oysters

The rarest oysters come from the bottom of the sea at the end of the earth.

A handful of jumiles.

Meats & Animal Products

Jumiles

These Mexican bugs taste like cinnamon and alleviate arthritis pain.

It's no fishing trip tripping on fish.

Meats & Animal Products

Salema Porgy

After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.

A close-up of lamprey meat.

Meats & Animal Products

Lamprey

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

On the street, beondegi will come in a small cup with toothpicks or chopsticks.

Meats & Animal Products

Beondegi

In South Korean markets, steamed silkworm pupae make a juicy, nutty snack.

Cooking with big-bottomed ants.

Meats & Animal Products

Big-Bottomed Ants

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

Stroganina

Meats & Animal Products

Stroganina

This is Siberia's sashimi, a simple delicacy born in one of the world’s coldest climes.

Pie, mash, and eel in parsley sauce.

Meats & Animal Products

Jellied Eels

No traditional East Ender meal is complete without pie, mashed potatoes, and gelatinous river creatures.

Capybara

Meats & Animal Products

Capybara

During Lent in Venezuela, the world's largest rodent becomes a “fish.”

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