Foods Caroline Mazel-Carlton Has Tried

This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.

These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

The autumn event re-creates meals shared by French settlers and Native Americans at an 18th-century fort.

The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

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

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

Mexican and American Indians have a long history with this powerful cactus.

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.