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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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The captivating blue flame of queimada.

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Queimada

This Galician punch is set aflame to ward off evil spirits.

Skewered suri grubs, anticuchos-style.

Meats & Animal Products

Suri Grubs

Palm weevil larvae make succulent street snacks in the Amazon.

A kholodet with shredded meat and an egg.

Prepared Foods

Kholodets

Savory meat jelly with a dollop of spicy mustard is a customary New Year's dish in Russia.

Alheira

Prepared Foods

Alheira

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

A bowl of bird's nest soup, with ladybell root.

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Bird's Nest Soup

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

A tray of corn flake–topped casserole.

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Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

Sausages ready to sizzle in the sauna.

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Sauna Sausage

In Finland, you sizzle along with your meal.

Paolo (left and lower right) with breadfruit and fish.

Meats & Animal Products

Palolo

To catch these coral-dwelling, caviar-flavored sea worms, you must wade into their annual mating ritual.

Akutuq

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Akutuq

Whipping snow, seal oil, and berries into a frosty treat takes a very deft hand.

Sardinian casu marzu teeming with live maggots.

Meats & Animal Products

Casu Marzu

The Sardinian cheese that wriggles with maggots.

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