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Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Colcannon with scallions and bacon.

Prepared Foods

Colcannon

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Mozartkugel

Sweets

Mozartkugel

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

Springerle

Sweets

Springerle

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

Cornish Pasty

Prepared Foods

Cornish Pasty

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

T’ej

Drinks

T’ej

Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.

Pouring Moroccan Mint Tea

Gastro

Pouring Moroccan Mint Tea

A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.

Sweet paan sans areca nut.

Prepared Foods

Paan

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.

The acidity and light carbonation of magkeolli pairs well with the spicy-sweet flavors of Korean cuisine.

Drinks

Makgeolli

South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.

Acorn jelly is often seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil, and comes topped with green onions, sesame seeds, and Korean chili flakes (gochugaru).

Prepared Foods

Acorn Jelly

The nut goes from oak tree to savory, sesame-topped side in a matter of days.

Black Garlic

Ingredients & Condiments

Black Garlic

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

Yak Cheese

Meats & Animal Products

Yak Cheese

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.

Dumplings smothered in XO sauce.

Ingredients & Condiments

XO Sauce

This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.

Cuy being grilled in Ecuador.

Prepared Foods

Cuy

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Pawpaw is served.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pawpaw

The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.

A boat-shaped salt cellar, replete with sea monsters and dolphins, forged roughly between 1575 and 1600.

Gastro

Salt Cellars

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

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

St. Louis-Style Pizza

Prepared Foods

St. Louis-Style Pizza

With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Boiled Green Peanuts

Prepared Foods

Boiled Green Peanuts

Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.

Beer Can Chicken

Prepared Foods

Beer Can Chicken

This bird comes with a brew inside.

Fried Chicken Gizzards

Prepared Foods

Fried Chicken Gizzards

These muscular organs are a crispy, chewy Southern favorite.

Watergate Salad

Sweets

Watergate Salad

This salad named after a scandal has been traced back to Kraft and Helen Keller.

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