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nolamike

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Dad, DJ, Lawyer, husband, amateur cook, sub-amateur guitarist.

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Foods this traveler has tried.

A butterfly pea cocktail.

Ingredients & Condiments

Butterfly Pea Flower

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.

Eccles Cake

Sweets

Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.

Shrubs have been used to preserve fruit for hundreds of years.

Drinks

Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

An ornate set of molinillos for sale.

Gastro

Molinillo

Twist your way to hot chocolate perfection with this wooden whisk.

Taiyaki

Sweets

Taiyaki

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

T’ej

Drinks

T’ej

Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.

Coca-Cola and Peanuts

Drinks

Coca-Cola and Peanuts

This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.

Yaupon Tea

Drinks

Yaupon Tea

The mellow-buzz brew that once fueled Native Americans is making a comeback.

Jam Roly-Poly

Sweets

Jam Roly-Poly

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale

Drinks

Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale

Birmingham's sinus-clearing soda was a popular way to enhance bootlegged hooch during Prohibition.

Gold-capped for less hot, red-capped for spicy-hot.

Drinks

Blenheim Ginger Ale

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

Taro Stems

Fruits & Vegetables

Taro Stems

These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.

Most Texas sheet cakes come topped with pecans.

Sweets

Texas Sheet Cake

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.

Dutch Baby

Prepared Foods

Dutch Baby

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

Nattō

Prepared Foods

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

Castoreum

Ingredients & Condiments

Castoreum

Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.

Benne Wafers

Sweets

Benne Wafers

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.

Beef Dripping

Ingredients & Condiments

Beef Dripping

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

Tofu, scallion, and narutomaki soup.

Meats & Animal Products

Narutomaki

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

Pistachio-flavored instant pudding mix gives Watergate Cake a cosmic glow.

Sweets

Watergate Cake

Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.

Escamoles, i.e. velvety tree ant eggs, pan-fried in butter.

Meats & Animal Products

Escamoles

The eggs of "the farty ant" have earned a reputation as the caviar of the desert.

Huitlacoche on a corn cob.

Ingredients & Condiments

Huitlacoche

The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.

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