Beetles, Barnacles, and Duck Embryos

Nue's Global Street Food Is All Over the Map, but That's Not Actually a Bad Thingby Angela GarbesA few years ago, I spent two memorable weeks in Salvador, Brazil, a city that was a major port during the Atlantic slave trade and whose culture still retains a strong African influence. Unsurprisingly, my favorite memories are of food, specifically the inordinate amount of time I spent stalking and trying dozens of versions of a dish called acarajé: small cakes of mashed black-eyed peas that