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Sam O'Brien

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Hi! I'm a senior editor at Gastro Obscura, covering food, history, and culture. My work has won the James Beard Award for Dining & Travel, been nominated for the IACP Award in Feature Writing, and been featured in "The Best American Food Writing." My favorite subjects involve the intersection of food, death, and folklore. I love exploring the world, seeking out new pies and tacos, befriending dogs, and wandering through cemeteries.

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Scoops of strawberry sit atop pineapple guri guri.

Sweets

Guri Guri

Maui's sherbet-ice cream hybrid is a light, fruity, creamy delight.

Penis Fish

Meats & Animal Products

Penis Fish

South Korea's anatomically suggestive sea worm is a satisfying blend of salty, sweet, and chewy.

Pythagorean Cup

Gastro

Pythagorean Cup

A timeless practical joke, brought to you by the ancient Greeks.

Seaweed Ale

Drinks

Seaweed Ale

The ocean-scented brew pays homage to an old Scottish style.

Café Brûlot

Drinks

Café Brûlot

The New Orleans cocktail is part pick-me-up, part pyrotechnics show.

A honeypot ant in Arizona.

Meats & Animal Products

Honeypot Ants

These insects swell with sweet, golden nectar.

Candied Hawthorn

Sweets

Candied Hawthorn

To celebrate Chinese New Year, vendors sell skewered, sugar-coated berries.

Tarantula Samosa

Prepared Foods

Tarantula Samosa

Tucked inside a flaky crust are layers of feta, spinach, and black, hairy legs.

Staraya Russa Salt

Gastro

Staraya Russa Salt

Make like Dostoyevsky and restore yourself with this Russian mineral.

Surstromming on flatbread.

Meats & Animal Products

Surströmming

The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.

Dutch Baby

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Dutch Baby

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

Roudoudous

Sweets

Roudoudous

These French candies originally came in seashells.

Most Texas sheet cakes come topped with pecans.

Sweets

Texas Sheet Cake

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.

An agouti roasts over a modern-day boucan.

Gastro

Boucan

This grill defined a new breed of pirates.

Delicious vanilla snow cream, made from snow, vanilla extract, and condensed milk.

Sweets

Snow Cream

Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.

Sannakji is often dipped in sesame oil.

Meats & Animal Products

Sannakji

These severed octopus tentacles wriggle on your plate.

Date shakes from Hadley Fruit Orchards.

Drinks

Palm Springs Date Shakes

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.

Berliner weisse, flavored with green woodruff syrup. (Yes, that's a child in a mug on the brewery's logo.)

Drinks

Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.

A decadent heap of Pique a lo Macho.

Prepared Foods

Pique a lo Macho

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

A plate of guatita, with rice and plantains.

Prepared Foods

Guatita

The Ecuadorian cure for a hangover is beef tripe stew.

Most blood pancakes get topped with lingonberries.

Prepared Foods

Blood Pancakes

Scandinavians use blood to make dense, dark, savory flapjacks.

Guayusa tea with leaves.

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Guayusa

The Kichwa begin every day with tea and dream interpretation.

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

A close-up of the candy's fine strands and crunchy filling.

Sweets

Dragon's Beard Candy

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

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