Foods Sarah Laskow Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

A Grasshopper ice cream cocktail.

Drinks

Grasshopper

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

In-shell littleneck clams accentuate this clam pie.

Prepared Foods

Clam Apizza

New Haven's signature pie combines staples from Rhode Island and Naples.

Vibrant jelly flowers fill jelly cakes.

Sweets

3-D Jelly Cakes

These clear cakes house intricate scenes of fish, flowers, and more.

Shrubs have been used to preserve fruit for hundreds of years.

Drinks

Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

Spicy-sour noodles plus a packet of tamarind sauce equals a delightful snack.

Sweets

Salsagheti

This Mexican candy reimagines a spaghetti dinner with spicy-sour gummy noodles and tamarind sauce.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

With an extra splash of seltzer.

Drinks

Egg Cream

A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.