Foods Joshua Ginsberg Has Tried

Minorcans spiced up the food scene in St. Augustine with this fiery crop.

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.

This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

This dark, sweet refresher was born at a now-defunct amusement park on the shores of Lake Erie.

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.

"As a vanquisher of men its equal has never been found."

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

Now largely forgotten, the pairing was once as popular as PB&J.

Real maraschinos were born more than a century ago in an Italian distillery.

The liqueur was created “to stimulate and revivify His Majesty” while he was driving.

This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.

A Prohibition-era flavor from a soda company beloved by Detroiters and Juggalos.

You can have your syrup and drink it, too.

Alaska's wildflowers produce this vibrant jelly.

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

These tricky pitchers turned pouring into a complex drinking game.

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.