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Thorláksmessa
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Thorláksmessa

To honor Iceland's patron saint, feast on fermented skate.
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Antwerp Chocolate Hands
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Antwerp Chocolate Hands

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.
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Kopi Joss
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Kopi Joss

You put the charcoal in the coffee cup and drink it all up.
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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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Death Noodles
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Death Noodles

A Jakarta hole-in-the-wall serves what may be the world's spiciest noodles.
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Oaxacan Mole Blanco
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Oaxacan Mole Blanco

The fairest and rarest of them all.
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Fröccs
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Fröccs

A seasonal Hungarian spritzer has a language all its own.
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Flódni
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Flódni

This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.
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Square Watermelons
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Square Watermelons

They grow in boxes and can cost more than $100.
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Singapore Carrot Cake
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Singapore Carrot Cake

A radish scramble gets lost in translation.
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Fugu
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Fugu

The toxic pufferfish steals hearts, despite its ability to stop them.
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Kurt
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Kurt

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.
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Omurice
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Omurice

Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
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Wasabi Ice Cream
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Wasabi Ice Cream

The cure and cause of a burning tongue.
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Tibetan Buddhist Butter Sculptures
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Tibetan Buddhist Butter Sculptures

Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.
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Basashi
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Basashi

The Japanese city of Kumamoto specializes in “cherry blossom meat.”
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Kacang Pool
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Kacang Pool

A “pool of beans” makes a hearty breakfast in Johor, Malaysia.
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Skal
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Skal

Meet Japan's first milk soda.
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Fresh Duck Blood Salad
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Fresh Duck Blood Salad

In this Laotian specialty, a medley of herbs, chilis, and peanuts swims in a sanguine dressing.
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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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Jibachi Senbei
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Jibachi Senbei

Elderly villagers hunt the digger wasps that stud these Japanese rice crackers.
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Pegu Club Cocktail
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Pegu Club Cocktail

A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.
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Yūbari King Melon
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Yūbari King Melon

The most expensive melon in the world is a status symbol in Japan.
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Heaven and Earth
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Heaven and Earth

This German comfort food unites earthbound potatoes with apples from above.
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