Ingredients & Condiments
Butterfly Pea Flower
With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Drinks
This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Gastro
Twist your way to hot chocolate perfection with this wooden whisk.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Drinks
Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.
Drinks
This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.
Drinks
The mellow-buzz brew that once fueled Native Americans is making a comeback.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Drinks
Birmingham's sinus-clearing soda was a popular way to enhance bootlegged hooch during Prohibition.
Drinks
The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.
Fruits & Vegetables
These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.
Sweets
Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Ingredients & Condiments
Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.
Sweets
A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.
Ingredients & Condiments
You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Sweets
Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.
Meats & Animal Products
The eggs of "the farty ant" have earned a reputation as the caviar of the desert.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.