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Guri Guri
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Guri Guri

Maui's sherbet-ice cream hybrid is a light, fruity, creamy delight.
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Malasadas
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Malasadas

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.
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Hāngi
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Hāngi

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.
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Koi-Koi Matsuri
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Koi-Koi Matsuri

A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.
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Monkey Buffet Festival
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Monkey Buffet Festival

The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.
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Mari Lwyd
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Mari Lwyd

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.
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St. Joseph's Day Altars
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St. Joseph's Day Altars

Elaborate bread sculptures grace these edible annual altars in Sicily and Sicilian communities abroad.
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Harenna Honey
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Harenna Honey

In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.
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Pan de Pulque
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Pan de Pulque

This shape-shifting bread has kept its traditional name, but continued to reinvent itself with changing times.
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Hiyoko
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Hiyoko

These bird-shaped cakes once fueled miners in Japan's Fukuoka region.
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Arkansas Black Apple
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Arkansas Black Apple

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.
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Marlborough Pie
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Marlborough Pie

A custardy twist on apple pie finds delicious use for fruit reaching spoilage.
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Kibinai
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Kibinai

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.
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Pueblo Bread
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Pueblo Bread

Baked in traditional adobe hornos, this bread is a staple of the American Southwest's Native Pueblo people.
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Coffee Cabinet
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Coffee Cabinet

The uniquely Rhode Island treat is a relic from the era of soda fountain pharmacies.
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Divle Obruk
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Divle Obruk

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.
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Ligurian Honey
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Ligurian Honey

This famous Italian honey is now produced only on an Australian island.
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Cream Pull Candy
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Cream Pull Candy

Kentucky's melt-in-your-mouth treats date back to the 1800s.
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Redlove Apple
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Redlove Apple

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.
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Roman Candy
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Roman Candy

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.
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Green River Soda
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Green River Soda

After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Mosbolletjies
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Mosbolletjies

These buns from South Africa's Cape Winelands are traditionally leavened with the must used to make wine.
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Brisbane Customs House Mushrooms
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Brisbane Customs House Mushrooms

The basement of a 19th-century government building provides peak conditions for delicious fungi.
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Turnip Schnapps
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Turnip Schnapps

The modest root vegetable makes a potent liquor in Wildschönau, Austria.
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