Fruits & Vegetables
Cotton Candy Grapes
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Sweets
The Southern barbecue staple offers a sweet, tropical chaser to the main course.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Prepared Foods
A bland but storied soup is always on the menu in the U.S. Senate.
Ingredients & Condiments
Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.
Sweets
Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Prepared Foods
These muscular organs are a crispy, chewy Southern favorite.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Sweets
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!
Prepared Foods
This bird comes with a brew inside.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Prepared Foods
You eat the shell, too.
Prepared Foods
This is what happens when soldiers pick a new name for meat on bread.
Sweets
This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.
Sweets
Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.
Sweets
Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Prepared Foods
This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.
Prepared Foods
Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.
Sweets
This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.