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Purén White Strawberry

Fruits & Vegetables

Purén White Strawberry

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

Wagashi

Sweets

Wagashi

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

Eye candy and actual candy.

Sweets

Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

Ruby Chocolate

Sweets

Ruby Chocolate

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

Supra

Gastro

Supra

This traditional Georgian feast is characterized by lots of food, lots of wine, and lots of rules. 

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

Poire Williams

Drinks

Poire Williams

Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.

Ovenly bakes a modern rendition of blackout cake in Brooklyn and wider New York.

Sweets

Brooklyn Blackout Cake

A cake as dark as a city hiding from enemy bombers.

The beverage's fragrance is due to a mixture of chicory and ground coffee powder.

Drinks

Kumbakonam Degree Coffee

The key to this coffee is fresh milk—preferably straight from the cow.

Spaghettieis

Sweets

Spaghettieis

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

Coquito nuts are found covered by the yellow layer shown on the right.

Fruits & Vegetables

Coquito Nuts

Chile is home to very, very small coconuts.

A bisected gấc fruit.

Fruits & Vegetables

Gấc

This lucky fruit tastes best in rice.

Maple Leaf Tempura

Prepared Foods

Maple Leaf Tempura

Why not fry a year-old leaf?

Wrapped juanes with plantains, hard-boiled eggs, and olives.

Prepared Foods

Juane

Peru’s leaf-wrapped rice ball might be named after John the Baptist’s decapitated head.

Changes in cabin pressure may cause explosion.

Sweets

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

Just don't eat the leaf.

Sweets

Paparajotes

Impress Murcianos by correctly eating these fried lemon leaves.

Date shakes from Hadley Fruit Orchards.

Drinks

Palm Springs Date Shakes

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.

A handful of olosapo.

Fruits & Vegetables

Olosapo

In Central America, custard grows on trees.

Akutuq

Prepared Foods

Akutuq

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

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.

Double scooperman.

Sweets

Superman Ice Cream

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

With an extra splash of seltzer.

Drinks

Egg Cream

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

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