These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

In Chile's central Araucanía region, the indigenous Mapuche community still makes this smoky spice blend.

This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.

At 8,000 feet above sea level, glacial irrigation produces a unique heirloom grain.

Popular in colonial New England, this “apple molasses” is now made by only a handful of commercial producers.

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

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

Authentic renditions of this Vietnamese noodle dish rely on the terroir of a single coastal city.

This hot-pink sweet treat that bears only a notional resemblance to poultry is a Canadian Christmastime staple.

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

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

This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

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

These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

One of the earliest fire-starting “technologies.”

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

Finns treat this rich, baked cheese like bread.

These detailed, dainty confections are made by hand with minimal tools.

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.

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