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Araga
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Araga

Traditional Tuvan booze is made from milk and distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.
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Wattleseed
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Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.
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Hevva Cake
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Hevva Cake

The simple sweets welcomed Cornish fishermen after they returned with their catch.
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Caws Pobi
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Caws Pobi

The fire-roasted cheese is the medieval precursor to Welsh rarebit.
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Blackberry Jam Fruit
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Blackberry Jam Fruit

Inside a hard, yellow shell lies a sweet, black spread.
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Eccles Cake
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Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
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Sgushyonka
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Sgushyonka

This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.
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Pouding Chômeur
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Pouding Chômeur

During the Great Depression, Canadian women made “unemployed-person pudding.”
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Pinhão
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Pinhão

As Brazil's forests of Araucaria angustifolia dwindle, so do the harvests of their delicious seeds.
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Khantsi
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Khantsi

Grab life by the Georgian wine horn.
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Chimay Beer Cheese
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Chimay Beer Cheese

Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.
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Amaro di Sant'Antimo
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Amaro di Sant'Antimo

At an abbey in the Tuscan countryside, monks specialize in a curative, flower-based liqueur.
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Taiyaki
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Taiyaki

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
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Hackberry
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Hackberry

The little-known fruit tastes like peanut M&Ms.
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Commandaria
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Commandaria

To taste the oldest wine still in production, head to Cyprus.
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Gruit Ale
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Gruit Ale

Brewers are replacing hops with sweet, aromatic herbs to resurrect this extinct beer.
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