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Like some political issues, Watergate salad can be polarizing.
politics

7 Candidates for Your Election Day Menu

Election season means fundraiser foods, satirical sweets, and campaign trail cuisine.
Andrew Coletti November 1, 2024
Food with a face is disconcerting. With fangs? Even more so.
food

Gloriously Gruesome Confections for Halloween–and the Rest of the Year

A new cookbook offers recipes that are both wholesome and horrifying.
Anne Ewbank October 15, 2024
Malaysian and Australian influences combine in Ho Jiak Town Hall's Vegemite-braised pork ribs.
beer

A Gastro Obscura Guide to Sydney

Wattleseed pudding, Vegemite-braised ribs, and more freewheeling fusion in the harbor city.
Lee Tran Lam July 1, 2024
Tokyo, Japan

Futaba Cake Building

This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.
Tampa, Florida

Harry Waugh Dessert Room at Bern’s Steak House

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.
Véronique and Anaëlle Fontanel hold their Hello Kitty set of fèves.
collections

The Weird, Wonderful World of Collecting French Cake Figurines

Porcelain or plastic, Harry Potter or copulating couple, fèves come in all shapes and sizes.
Emily Monaco December 8, 2023
A small Lancashire courting cake
Gastro Obscura

Lancashire Courting Cake

Before dating apps, young people used this cake to express their feelings.
Pulsnitz, Germany

Pfefferkuchenmuseum Pulsnitz

An aromatic exploration of the rich history and flavors of this German town's famous gingerbread.
Caraway and candied citrus flavor the buttery sponge.
cake

Welsh Sheep-Shearing Cake Is a Forgotten Pastoral Pleasure

Cacen gneifo was a traditional gift for farmhands during wool-gathering season.
Jamie Ellis September 22, 2023
Gastro Obscura

Flódni

This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.
Lakeland, Florida

Publix Cake Water Tower

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.
Munich, Germany

Kuchentratsch

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.
Barbie cakes are a birthday classic.
dolls

Before Barbie and Barbie Cakes, There Was Dolly and Dolly Varden Cakes

These toy-filled birthday cakes have an intriguing connection to both Charles Dickens and Australia.
Cathleen Freedman July 20, 2023
It's not hard to find the ingredients for this simple vegan cake.
food

Lost Something? Make This Greek Saint's Cake

Fanouropita has a mystical reputation.
Rossi Anastopoulo June 27, 2023
Gastro Obscura

Doberge Cake

This towering treat is a slice of New Orleans immigrant history.
The entrance to Konditorei Buchwald.
Berlin, Germany

Konditorei Buchwald

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”
The first “red” chocolate cakes were barely red at all.
food

Red Velvet Cake's Journey to The Juneteenth Table

Make the dessert that first inspired the popular crimson slice.
Diana Hubbell May 15, 2023
The Gloucester Cathedral–shaped lamprey pie for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
medieval

5 of Our Favorite Odd Traditions of English Royalty

From a coronation pie made of lampreys to someone to chat with you in the loo.
April White April 26, 2023