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Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

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

Mangalica

Meats & Animal Products

Mangalica

These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Prepared Foods

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

Most people would just walk by this fruit, rich with history and culinary potential.

Fruits & Vegetables

Strawberry Tree Fruit

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

Johnny Marzetti

Prepared Foods

Johnny Marzetti

The casserole with a person's name.

Luk Chup

Sweets

Luk Chup

Portuguese traders' love of marzipan paved the way for Thailand's vibrant mung bean candy.

Lacryma Christi

Drinks

Lacryma Christi

The vineyards of Mount Vesuvius still produce the same wines enjoyed by the ancient Romans.

Commandaria

Drinks

Commandaria

To taste the oldest wine still in production, head to Cyprus.

Bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau in Sonoma, California.

Drinks

Beaujolais Nouveau

When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.

Eccles Cake

Sweets

Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Smørrebrød

Prepared Foods

Smørrebrød

Denmark's open-faced sandwiches are equal parts decadent and decorative.

A modern attempt to recreate garum.

Ingredients & Condiments

Garum

In ancient Rome, this fermented fish sauce sparked a booming industry.

Beef Dripping

Ingredients & Condiments

Beef Dripping

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

Jam Roly-Poly

Sweets

Jam Roly-Poly

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

Financiers

Sweets

Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

Kala is Hindi for "black," an apt descriptor for these inky fried balls.

Sweets

Kala Jamun

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

Grass Jelly

Ingredients & Condiments

Grass Jelly

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

A seafood okonomiyaki topped with bonito flakes

Prepared Foods

Okonomiyaki

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

Pu'er

Drinks

Pu'er

Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.

Beans drying at Kona Premium Coffee Company.

Drinks

Pure Kona Coffee

Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.

Handmade vínarterta at the Hnausa General Store in New Iceland, Cnada.

Sweets

Vínarterta

Elusive in its country of origin, this multilayer cake has found a home in Manitoba's “New Iceland” region.

Kouign-Amann

Sweets

Kouign-Amann

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

Once grapes freeze on the vine, there's only a narrow window of time to press them.

Drinks

Ice Wine

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.

Yusheng

Prepared Foods

Yusheng

The higher you toss this fish salad, the luckier your year will be.

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