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Sweet and Savory

Tsakoniki Melitzana

This sweet, slender eggplant grows only in a Greek valley.

Saskatoon Berry Perogies

When Ukrainian immigrants embraced a local crop, a sweet prairie perogy was born.

Little Czech Bakery

Czech Stop & Little Czech Bakery

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Ripe peanut butter fruit growing in the summer.

Peanut Butter Fruit

Its pulp tastes just like the creamy spread.

French-Fried Turkey Breast

In South Range, a decadent take on Thanksgiving dinner is served year-round.

Los Angeles, California

Wat Thai Temple Food Market

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

New Mexican Sundae

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

Skewered gohei mochi.

Hebo Matsuri

Every November, wasp-based dishes create quite a buzz in a Japanese village.

Āsh-e Miveh

A sweet-and-sour fruit soup from Iran makes for a comforting one-pot meal.

Fatafat

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

Pigeon Pastilla

This sweet-and-savory Moroccan meat pie can be tough to track down.

Plastic Chutney

Don’t be fooled by the name of this Bengali relish.

Frog Eye Salad

Don’t worry: This sweet, creamy Mormon potluck staple isn’t actually made of frogs.

You can gnaw, but you better not bite.

Pequi

You can only nibble on this citrusy-cheesy fruit or risk a mouthful of spikes.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Venezuela.

Pan de Jamón

In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.

A cup of iced oolong with cheese foam and egg floss.

Cheese Tea

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

Pasita

A small cantina is home to a sweet-and-salty shot of raisin liqueur with a cheese cube chaser.

Pickle Pie

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.