In this summer phenomenon, fish swarm Alabama shores and waterfront residents scoop up the bounty.

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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

Long Island's rich history of clamming is packed inside a creamy, sea-scented pie.

Coke spiked with aromatic spirits of ammonia was once used to treat everything from hangovers to indigestion.

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

For Italian-Americans, Christmas Eve is all about the seafood.

Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it.

A small cantina is home to a sweet-and-salty shot of raisin liqueur with a cheese cube chaser.

Grandmas fashion this near-forgotten Passover treat from ginger and honey.

At last, a street snack that brings together Doritos, veggies, pickled pig skin, and gummies.

This Midwestern dessert salad draws on both Scandinavian immigrant and local Ojibwe influences.

It's actually a crab dish from Alabama's Gulf Coast.

This old American style is being resurrected by Indiana brewers.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

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

This velvety, vintage treat still has a fan base in Maryland.

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

This Philadelphia cocktail was invented at a fishing club that once declared itself a sovereign state.

In a supreme test of gut and gam, runners must eat a half-smoke sausage with chips before completing a 13.1-mile race.

North Carolina's seasonal delicacy is brought to you by algae.

Tohono O’odham cooks finish these hand-stretched, buttery tortillas over a hot stone disc.