Ingredients & Condiments
Montreal Steak Spice
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Fruits & Vegetables
Smells like lavender, tastes like lemon rind, looks like a gnarled claw fresh from your nightmares.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Sweets
Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Sweets
These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.
Drinks
Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.
Fruits & Vegetables
Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.
Prepared Foods
This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.
Prepared Foods
Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.
Ingredients & Condiments
In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.
Sweets
Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Drinks
This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.
Sweets
From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.
Meats & Animal Products
This spiced jerky is a beloved snack in South Africa.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.