After a hurricane struck New England in 1938, one chef used windfall apples to make a sweet breakfast-topper.

This Denver specialty, a hybrid of Mexican and American cuisine, is peak comfort food.

This celebration of the largest edible fruit native to the United States features plenty of “pawpawpular” foods.

This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

A roadside diner in Hatch, New Mexico, makes the most of the town's fiery crop.

This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.

This wild fruit helps man and beast survive long treks without water in the Kalahari desert.

In Thai lore, these fried hard-boiled eggs are a delicious warning for a misbehaving husband.

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

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

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

A Finnish city specializes in sausages housed in sugar-dusted doughnuts.

This unique soup of chicken drippings, vinegar, and cayenne pepper has been a Bradford, Tennessee, favorite for decades.

Sandwiches stuffed with wine-and-cinnamon-spiced sausage have been a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1936.

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

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.

The original cheeseburger, hold the beef patty.

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

This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.

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

This regional Russian delicacy once called itself Parisian.

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

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