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Rachel Rummel

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Founding member of Gastro Obscura and co-writer of the NYT-bestselling Food Adventurer's Guide.

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Sweet paan sans areca nut.

Prepared Foods

Paan

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

Have your cake and eat it, too.

Sweets

Atomic Cake

This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.

Some blues get you down, some blues get you up.

Ingredients & Condiments

Blue-Green Algae

The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.

Pretty please with a walnut on top.

Sweets

Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

It's no fishing trip tripping on fish.

Meats & Animal Products

Salema Porgy

After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.

Jagua

Fruits & Vegetables

Jagua

This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.

Pitchers of pulque curado.

Gastro

Pulque

Tequila's ancient, fermented cousin is making a comeback in Mexico City.

No Screech-in is complete without a codfish kiss.

Gastro

Screech-In

To become an honorary Newfie, eat bologna, kiss a frozen cod, swear an oath, and shoot rum.

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

The prickly toloache fruit, with seeds inside.

Gastro

Toloache

The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.

Bleeding rock.

Meats & Animal Products

Piure

Slice open this rock-like sea creature and you'll find tomato-red flesh that tastes great in Chilean ceviche.

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.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

Way better than a bread bowl.

Prepared Foods

Boodog

To travel light, Mongolian warriors used animal carcasses as crockery.

An array of crumbly, white pule.

Meats & Animal Products

Pule

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.

Kala is Hindi for "black," an apt descriptor for these inky fried balls.

Sweets

Kala Jamun

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

A handful of jumiles.

Meats & Animal Products

Jumiles

These Mexican bugs taste like cinnamon and alleviate arthritis pain.

A slice of black cake baked by Mrs. Annemarie Charles, from San Fernando, Trinidad.

Sweets

Black Cake

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

Mannish Water

Prepared Foods

Mannish Water

Jamaica's spicy goat soup is also an aphrodisiac.

Ptasie Mleczko with coconut, but still no actual bird's milk.

Sweets

Bird Milk Chocolate

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

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.

Gooseneck barnacles are called "percebes" in Spanish.

Meats & Animal Products

Gooseneck Barnacles

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Whitebait fritters are a New Zealand delicacy.

Prepared Foods

Whitebait Fritters

It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.

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