List of delicacies
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A delicacy is a food that is particularly prized within a given culture. Delicacies are often rare foods that are difficult to obtain or prepare, and as a result may only be served for special occasions. Often the rarity or difficulty to prepare of a dish causes it to be comparatively expensive to other local foods.
This is a List of national delicacies. This list is sorted from where the food originated from. Many of these dishes may be normal to one culture, however to other cultures may seem bizarre.
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[edit] List of delicacies
[edit] Australia
- Witchetty Grubs - moth larvae found feeding on roots underground - are historically eaten by Aboriginals as a high-protein food, though they aren't generally consumed in modern day culture.
[edit] Cambodia
[edit] Canada
- Dried cod
- Lobster
- Smoked Salmon especially wild salmon
- Fiddlehead ferns
- Geoduck
[edit] China
- Abalone
- Bird's nest soup
- Beggar Chicken
- Duck tongues
- Duck and Geese webbed feet
- Fried Grasshoppers
- Geoduck clam
- Shanghai hairy crab
- Sea cucumber
- Thousand-year old egg
- Fish maw
- Shark fin soup
[edit] France
- Calf brains
- Black truffle
- Escargot
- Foie gras
- Frog legs
- Ortolan
- Sweetbread
- Tartare
- Sea cucumber - beche de mer
[edit] Greece
- Achinos - sea urchin roe
- Atherina - Silverside (fish)
- Avgotaraho
- Octopus
- Salingaria - Snail
[edit] Guatemala
[edit] India
[edit] Italy
- Babbaluci - Snail
- Balsamic vinegar
- Bottarga
- Chestnuts
- Octopus
- Porcini Mushrooms
- White truffle
- Wild Boar
[edit] Japan
- Anglerfish
- Fugu - Poisonous pufferfish.
- Kobe beef
- Matsuzaka beef
- Odori ebi – Live baby prawns
- Sake kawa – Fried or roasted salmon skin
- Toro - fatty belly meat of Northern bluefin tuna
- Uni - sea urchin roe
- Matsutake mushroom - Japanese counterpart of Truffle
[edit] Mexico
- Beef brain (Sesos)
- Beef tongue(Lengua)
- Pork rind (Chicharrones)
- Fried Grasshoppers (Chapulines)
- Fried ant larvae (Escamoles)
- Menudo
- Cuitlacoche
- Tepezcuintle
[edit] New Zealand
- Bluff oysters
- Huhu grubs
- Whitebait
- Kina - Sea urchin
- Paua - Abalone
- Mutton bird
- Toheroa shellfish soup
[edit] Netherlands
- Nieuwe Herring
[edit] Norway
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Russia
[edit] South Africa
- Boerwors Farmers sausage
- Biltong Dried spiced meat
[edit] Spain
- Fresh prawns and shrimps (gambas frescas)
- Lobster (langosta)
- Young eels (angulas)
- Veal sirloin (Solomillo de ternera)
- Foie gras
[edit] Sweden
[edit] United Kingdom
- Black Pudding
- Jellied Eels
- Cockles
- Haggis (in Scotland)
- Cullen Skink (in Scotland)
[edit] United States
- USDA prime-grade, Dry aged beef
- Dungeness crab
- Fiddlehead ferns
- Maryland blue crab
- Maine lobster
- Morel mushrooms
- Olympia oysters
- Long Island Duck or Peking Duck
[edit] Sources
- Footage Store Mentions Cobra blood and Fried snakes
- Ecology in Cambodia Mentions sparrows as delicacy
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