Pristina & Kosovo
Order “a coffee” in a Prishtina café and you’ll most likely get this espresso drink
Macchiato
A flaky phyllo pie filled with cheese, spinach, or meat
Byrek
St. Louis’s famous breaded and deep-fried pasta appetizer
Toasted ravioli
Kansas is the top US producer of this crop, earning it the nickname “The Wheat State”
Wheat
The Indianapolis 500 winner celebrates by drinking this
Milk
This smoky spread, served with almost everything, is made mainly from roasted red peppers
Ajvar
Albania’s national dish: baked lamb and rice under a tangy yogurt-and-egg crust
Tavë kosi (Elbasan tava)
This rich, gooey St. Louis cake supposedly began as a baker’s mistake
Gooey butter cake
Both Pizza Hut and White Castle started in this Kansas city
Wichita
Indiana’s signature sandwich, a pounded, breaded slab of pork much bigger than the bun
Pork tenderloin sandwich
Small grilled minced-meat sausages, usually ordered by 5 or 10 with onions and bread
Qebapa
This “three milks” cake, loved in Albania and Kosovo, shares its roots with a Latin American dessert
Trileçe (tres leches)
The crispy, fatty ends of a smoked brisket, a Kansas City BBQ specialty
Burnt ends
This famous Kansas City, Kansas BBQ spot opened inside a working gas station
Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que (formerly Oklahoma Joe’s)
Indiana’s official state pie, also called “Hoosier pie”
Sugar cream pie
The dish built one thin batter layer at a time under a lid covered in hot coals, taking hours
Flija (fli)
Albania’s strong fruit brandy, usually made from grapes and served at every celebration
Raki
The processed cheese (cheddar, Swiss, and provolone) on St. Louis-style pizza
Provel
Brought by Volga German immigrants, these baked dough pockets are stuffed with beef, cabbage, and onion
Bierocks
This bow-tied Hoosier popcorn king is honored by Valparaiso’s annual popcorn festival
Orville Redenbacher
Kosovars drink this herbal tea, picked from mountain slopes, when they feel a cold coming on
Çaj mali (mountain tea)
These crumbly cookies from Elbasan are baked for Summer Day (Dita e Verës) every March 14
Ballokume
This lemon-lime soda was created in St. Louis in 1929 as “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”
7 Up
The hardy winter wheat Mennonite immigrants from Russia brought to Kansas in 1874
Turkey Red wheat
Indianapolis’s St. Elmo Steak House is famous for this appetizer and its sinus-clearing horseradish sauce
Shrimp cocktail