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Rin Wolfe

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Foods this traveler wants to try.

New York Charlotte Russe

Sweets

New York Charlotte Russe

The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.

Cuy being grilled in Ecuador.

Prepared Foods

Cuy

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

An ideal final product from a curanto.

Gastro

Curanto

Chile’s clambake may be the world's oldest recipe.

Ice cream beans really do taste like vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients & Condiments

Ice Cream Bean

The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.

A decadent heap of Pique a lo Macho.

Prepared Foods

Pique a lo Macho

Can you finish Bolivia's enormous starch-and-protein explosion?

Ripe peanut butter fruit growing in the summer.

Fruits & Vegetables

Peanut Butter Fruit

Its pulp tastes just like the creamy spread.

Coquito nuts are found covered by the yellow layer shown on the right.

Fruits & Vegetables

Coquito Nuts

Chile is home to very, very small coconuts.

Ranfañote

Sweets

Ranfañote

This vintage dessert of bread, cheese, and syrup nearly disappeared from Peru.

Capybara

Meats & Animal Products

Capybara

During Lent in Venezuela, the world's largest rodent becomes a “fish.”

Purén White Strawberry

Fruits & Vegetables

Purén White Strawberry

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

Api Morado

Drinks

Api Morado

Cold mornings in the Andean Highlands are best met with a steaming cup of this sweet, purple drink.

Lúcuma

Fruits & Vegetables

Lúcuma

This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.

King Kong

Sweets

King Kong

The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.

Colombian Hot Dogs

Prepared Foods

Colombian Hot Dogs

You might not even see the meat beneath this pile of potato chips, sauce, and quail eggs.

Cholado

Sweets

Cholado

The cool Colombian treat blends shaved ice with syrup, fruit, and anything from wafer cookies to cheese.

Amarula Brigadeiro

Sweets

Amarula Brigadeiro

Pair a Brazilian confection with a sweet South African liqueur, and a unique treat is born.

A canelazo made with citrus and cloves.

Drinks

Canelazo

A sweet, warm cocktail to chase away the chill of Andean nights.

A sausage is cheaper than getting fined for not voting.

Prepared Foods

Democracy Sausage

Come to vote, leave with a sausage.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Whitebait fritters are a New Zealand delicacy.

Prepared Foods

Whitebait Fritters

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

Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”

Sweets

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

Pretty please with a walnut on top.

Sweets

Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.

Finger Lime

Fruits & Vegetables

Finger Lime

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

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