Gastro obscura

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In northern Scandinavia, cups of coffee get enhanced with cheese.

In Zanzibar, Swahili and Indian cuisine swirl together in a hearty, complex stew.

These eerily bone-like candies come with bumpy “joints” of nuts and chocolate “marrow” inside.

A circle of South Dakota towns specializes in these fried meat cubes.

This crisp, sour Kenyan brew is made by fermenting the “sausage” fruit.

We can thank coconuts for this lesser-known tropical moonshine.

Fatal Facility; or, Poisons for the Asking. Child. "Please, Mister, will you be so good as to fill this bottle again with lodnum, and let mother have another pound and a half of arsenic for the rats (!)" Duly Qualified Chemist. "Certainly, Ma'am. Is there any other article?"

In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.