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Rillettes
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Rillettes

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
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Giant Omelette Festival
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Giant Omelette Festival

A brotherhood is behind this 15,000-egg tradition.
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Charentais Melon
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Charentais Melon

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.
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Anis de Flavigny
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Anis de Flavigny

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.
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Cancoillotte
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Cancoillotte

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.
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Api Etoile Apple
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Api Etoile Apple

This star-shaped fruit has been beloved for centuries.
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Cougnou
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Cougnou

This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.
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Financiers
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Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
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Cramaillote
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Cramaillote

This jelly is made with dandelions and tastes like honey.
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Biscuits Roses de Reims
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Biscuits Roses de Reims

These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.
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Kouign-Amann
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Kouign-Amann

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.
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Croquembouche
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Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.
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Floating Island
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Floating Island

The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
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Aligot
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Aligot

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.
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Honeypot Ants
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Honeypot Ants

These insects swell with sweet, golden nectar.
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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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Piki Bread
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Piki Bread

This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.
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Chumuth
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Chumuth

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

Adding juniper ash to this traditional Navajo dish gives it as much calcium as a glass of milk.
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