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Oliebollen
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Oliebollen

These Dutch doughnuts are classic New Year's treats.
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Hot Beef Sundae
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Hot Beef Sundae

Pretty please with a cherry (tomato) on top?
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Carbonnade à la Flamande
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Carbonnade à la Flamande

Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.
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Iboga
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Iboga

The psychedelic root used in a sacred Bwiti ritual may also treat heroin withdrawal.
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Tenili
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Tenili

These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.
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Sumalak
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Sumalak

A sweet and simple pudding traditionally made in a joyous, spring ritual.
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Chekich
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Chekich

These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.
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Kurt
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Kurt

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

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

The reddest of the red meat.
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Clambake
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Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.
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Beach Plum Jelly
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Beach Plum Jelly

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.
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Breadfruit Salad
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Breadfruit Salad

This tropical fruit once sparked a famous mutiny and now serves as a starch alternative in potato salad.
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Blenheim Apricot
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Blenheim Apricot

Snap judgments may spell trouble for what was once the king of California apricots.
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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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Colonnata Lard
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Colonnata Lard

As fine as the marble it's cured in, this pig fat salumi is a Tuscan masterpiece.
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Peameal Bacon
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Peameal Bacon

The real "Canadian bacon" comes rolled in cornmeal.
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Mojama
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Mojama

Spain's salt-cured tuna is known as “the ham of the sea.”
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Bra Sausage
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Bra Sausage

A veal-based sausage that survived a royal beef ban.
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Zhavoronki
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Zhavoronki

These lark-shaped buns herald spring.
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Gyuma
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Gyuma

In Tibet, blood sausage is the byproduct of bloodletting yaks for healing purposes.
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Skal
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Skal

Meet Japan's first milk soda.
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Baleni Salt
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Baleni Salt

A sacred tree, a secret language, and the labor of generations of women keep an ancient tradition of salt harvesting alive.
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Rohini Chaki Added by Rohini Chaki
Farim Salt
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Farim Salt

An industry run almost entirely by women is developing new sustainable methods to harvest this highly coveted riverbed salt.
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Rohini Chaki Added by Rohini Chaki