Boston baked beans are navy beans slow-cooked with molasses, salt pork, and seasonings until they turn dark, sweet, smoky, and deeply savory.

Boston brown bread is a dense, slightly sweet steamed bread made with molasses, rye flour, cornmeal, and whole wheat flour.

Boston cream pie is actually a cake: two layers of sponge filled with pastry cream and topped with chocolate glaze.

The chocolate chip cookie was born in Whitman, Massachusetts: buttery dough studded with chocolate pieces that stay melty, sweet, and irresistible.

Massachusetts fried clams are whole-belly soft-shell clams dipped, coated, and fried until crisp outside and briny-sweet inside.

A Massachusetts-style hot dog is usually a snappy grilled or steamed frank served in a New England split-top bun with simple toppings like mustard, relish, onions, or chili.

New England clam chowder is a creamy soup made with clams, potatoes, onions, salt pork or bacon, and milk or cream.

A Parker House roll is a soft, buttery folded dinner roll invented at Boston’s Parker House Hotel.