Ingredients & Condiments
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Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Sweets
This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.
Ingredients & Condiments
Real maraschinos were born more than a century ago in an Italian distillery.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Gastro
These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.
Gastro
These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Drinks
The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.
Sweets
Smashing this pink candy pig with a tiny hammer is a Christmas tradition in Saratoga Springs.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Sweets
These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.
Prepared Foods
This bird comes with a brew inside.
Prepared Foods
Now largely forgotten, the pairing was once as popular as PB&J.
Drinks
This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.
Drinks
The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Prepared Foods
Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.
Prepared Foods
From humble meat-hybrid to Cincinnati favorite.
Sweets
Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.
Prepared Foods
Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.