Prepared Foods
The Fluffernutter
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Prepared Foods
Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Prepared Foods
The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.
Drinks
A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.
Ingredients & Condiments
It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Fruits & Vegetables
The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.
Sweets
Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.
Gastro
An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.
Prepared Foods
The reddest of the red meat.
Gastro
Once upon a time, getting your carbonation fix required a visit to a monstrous machine.
Gastro
The bitter herb served on Passover can be anything from horseradish to lettuce.
Ingredients & Condiments
This varietal of rice is so good that it's compared to ice cream.
Drinks
Colonial Gatorade made from vinegar and molasses is back in style.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Drinks
Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.
Drinks
This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.
Sweets
Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.
Ingredients & Condiments
In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.
Sweets
In the city of Celaya, goat's milk caramel tops everything from ice cream to cereal.
Sweets
French Canadians find “nun’s farts” addictively delicious.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.