Ingredients & Condiments
Red-Eye Gravy
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Sweets
Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Sweets
This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.
Sweets
This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Ingredients & Condiments
With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
Prepared Foods
The nut goes from oak tree to savory, sesame-topped side in a matter of days.
Ingredients & Condiments
In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Drinks
This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.
Prepared Foods
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
Drinks
This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.
Drinks
A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.
Drinks
This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.
Drinks
A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.
Drinks
Quench your thirst with the refreshing taste of celery soda.
Meats & Animal Products
Don't call the crown jewel of New Jersey "Canadian bacon."
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.