Drinks
Gunpowder Rum
A spirit that toasts a time when proofing your liquor meant setting it aflame.
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Drinks
A spirit that toasts a time when proofing your liquor meant setting it aflame.
Drinks
This ceremonial Mayan brew has evolved into a sweet, smoky spirit in the Chiapas highlands.
Prepared Foods
Even a local sports team pays homage to these white-crusted, savory spuds.
Fruits & Vegetables
This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.
Sweets
The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.
Drinks
This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.
Sweets
Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Drinks
This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Drinks
A small cantina is home to a sweet-and-salty shot of raisin liqueur with a cheese cube chaser.
Drinks
When faced with less-than-optimal ingredients, Swedes and Norwegians once clarified their brews with eggs.
Sweets
These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.
Sweets
This taste bud befuddler is a signature Baltimore sweet.
Drinks
Coke spiked with aromatic spirits of ammonia was once used to treat everything from hangovers to indigestion.
Prepared Foods
Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.
Prepared Foods
The original “nails” have disappeared from this cheese-smothered, horseshoe-shaped ham dish.
Ingredients & Condiments
Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Prepared Foods
Long Island's rich history of clamming is packed inside a creamy, sea-scented pie.
Sweets
One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.
Sweets
This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.
Drinks
South Jersey's signature syrup has been flavoring sodas and shakes for more than a century.
Prepared Foods
This is one seriously polarizing pie.
Drinks
Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it.