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Pie Floater
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Pie Floater

The Aussie street food meal of meat pie on a sea of peas.
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Kulebyaka
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Kulebyaka

The decadent, overloaded Russian pie once contained sturgeon spinal cord.
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Túró Rudi
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Túró Rudi

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.
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Sour Orange Pie
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Sour Orange Pie

Floridians baked this tangy treat before key lime took over the state's pie scene.
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Crowdie
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Crowdie

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.
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Emily Dickinson's Black Cake
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Emily Dickinson's Black Cake

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.
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Callu de Cabrettu
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Callu de Cabrettu

Sardinia may be home to the oldest style of cheese.
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Cholla Buds
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Cholla Buds

Beneath a layer of spines, this cactus sprouts asparagus-flavored buds.
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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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Dinuguan
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Dinuguan

A pork blood stew so rich and velvety, it's known as “chocolate meat.”
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Lapis Legit
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Lapis Legit

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
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Pickle Pie
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Pickle Pie

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.
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Collard Sandwich
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Collard Sandwich

Greens and crispy corn bread combine in this North Carolina specialty.
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Api Morado
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Api Morado

Cold mornings in the Andean Highlands are best met with a steaming cup of this sweet, purple drink.
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Russian Tea
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Russian Tea

This Southern church group favorite isn't Slavic at all.
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Butter Cows
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Butter Cows

These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.
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Piki Bread
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Piki Bread

This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.
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Trappist Mango Treats
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Trappist Mango Treats

At the only Trappist monastery in the Philippines, monks turn local fruit into sinfully delicious goodies.
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Chocolate Daisy
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Chocolate Daisy

This wildflower releases a cocoa fragrance each morning.
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Black Chicken Soup
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Black Chicken Soup

In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.
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Blue Wine
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Blue Wine

Recently introduced to France, it's the color of pool water.
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Mauby
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Mauby

Caribbean tree bark gives this drink its bittersweet flavor.
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Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout
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Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout

What began as an April Fools' Day prank ended in a testicle-spiked beer.
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Maggi Seasoning
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Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
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