Sweets
Crystal Beach Sugar Waffles
These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.
Drinks
This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Drinks
Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.
Fruits & Vegetables
All but absent from supermarket shelves, this heirloom peach is a sweet secret in Southerners' backyard gardens.
Fruits & Vegetables
This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Food Festivals
Every year, one tiny Tennessee town celebrates this sugary Southern duo.
Prepared Foods
This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.
Sweets
This Midwestern dessert salad draws on both Scandinavian immigrant and local Ojibwe influences.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Sweets
A Thunder Bay bakery misnamed this berry-frosted cinnamon bun after General John Pershing.
Drinks
The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Sweets
This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Fruits & Vegetables
They grow in boxes and can cost more than $100.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Ingredients & Condiments
Flavoring everything from dumplings to mochi, this sweet and salty paste shows another side to edamame.
Prepared Foods
With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.
Prepared Foods
A greasy crossroads of history and culture.