Fruits & Vegetables
Sugarloaf Pineapple
Devour this rare variety without fear of post-pineapple mouth irritation.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Devour this rare variety without fear of post-pineapple mouth irritation.
Prepared Foods
This beloved piece of Mexican-American fusion coats a bacon-wrapped dog in beans, mayo, and jalapeño salsa.
Sweets
A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.
Prepared Foods
Bacteria that cause gangrene are the magic ingredient in this cheese-scented loaf.
Sweets
In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.
Fruits & Vegetables
The sweet and creamy “eggfruit” makes a great nog.
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.
Sweets
The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.
Prepared Foods
Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Gastro
Early American settlers invented new tools to harvest a new crop.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Sweets
Floridians baked this tangy treat before key lime took over the state's pie scene.
Sweets
This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
Sweets
This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.
Sweets
This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.
Fruits & Vegetables
This recently revived New York heirloom doesn't contain cheese, but it does make an iconic pumpkin pie.
Fruits & Vegetables
All but absent from supermarket shelves, this heirloom peach is a sweet secret in Southerners' backyard gardens.
Fruits & Vegetables
This Canadian variety of a classic Mediterranean herb gives Acadian cuisine its signature fragrance.
Fruits & Vegetables
Snap judgments may spell trouble for what was once the king of California apricots.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.