Prepared Foods
Boiled Green Peanuts
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Fruits & Vegetables
The briny “asparagus of the sea” grows along coasts around the world.
Sweets
In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Sweets
Called the turducken of desserts, this multilayered cake hides two pies inside.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.