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nyamalo

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Foods this traveler has tried.

Sourdough bread lined up at San Francisco's Boudin Bakery.

Ingredients & Condiments

Sourdough Starter

A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.

The Boston Stabber

Gastro

The Boston Stabber

This praised oyster shucker is as elegant as it is dangerous.

Faloodeh at Sofreh, in Brooklyn.

Sweets

Faloodeh

This crunchy, sweet, and tart noodle sorbet is one of the world's oldest frozen desserts.

Grating coconuts using a coconut grater school in Tahiti, circa 1911.

Gastro

Coconut Grater Stool

You put the grater in the coconut...

Scrumpy

Drinks

Scrumpy

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

Cornish Pasty

Prepared Foods

Cornish Pasty

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

Cornmeal johnnycakes topped with honey.

Prepared Foods

Johnnycakes

The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.

Calcots are longer than your average onion.

Fruits & Vegetables

Calçot

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

Rows on rows of Autocrat, a coffee syrup made by a top producer of the stuff.

Drinks

Coffee Milk

Would you like some coffee flavor with your milk?

A beachside bounty from a clambake.

Gastro

Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.

Slices of fresh hverabrauð.

Prepared Foods

Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

Tibetan tea is made with tea, yak butter, and salt.

Drinks

Yak Butter Tea

It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.

A Grasshopper ice cream cocktail.

Drinks

Grasshopper

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

Sweet paan sans areca nut.

Prepared Foods

Paan

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Caffeinated salad—how efficient.

Prepared Foods

Lahpet Thoke

In Myanmar, fermented tea leaves make a tangy, caffeinated salad.

One of these peppers could set your mouth on fire.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pimientos de Padrón

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Kali

Drinks

Kali

Beer meets soda in this refreshing Estonian brew.

Mandazi

Sweets

Mandazi

Across East Africa, these cardamom-flavored doughnuts are the perfect pairing for chai.

T’ej

Drinks

T’ej

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

Podstakannik

Gastro

Podstakannik

These old-school metal tea-glass holders are a fixture on Russian trains.

Boston Baked Beans

Sweets

Boston Baked Beans

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

The small storefront of A Ginjinha.

Drinks

Ginjinha

In Lisbon, tiny, standing-room-only bars specialize in this sour cherry liqueur.

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

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