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Fermented Food

Sweet Potato Fly

Fermenting tubers with spices, eggshells, and sugar creates a fizzy, wassail-flavored drink.

Funazushi

Japan's funky, fermented sushi takes years to prepare.

Raicilla

Meet tequila's fruity, fragrant relative.

Muratina

This crisp, sour Kenyan brew is made by fermenting the “sausage” fruit.

Hongeo

Fermented skate smells like it urinates through its skin—which it does.

Amba

The spicy, sour mango sauce is beloved from India to Israel.

Mauby

Caribbean tree bark gives this drink its bittersweet flavor.

Skerpikjøt

Without salt or refrigeration, early residents of the Faroe Islands preserved their mutton with the cold wind.

A piece of fallen marula at Kruger National Park.

Marula

The intoxicating South African fruit is beloved by humans and elephants.

Rakfisk

Norway's notorious fermented trout is a tangy Christmas tradition.

T’ej

Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.

Shidol Chutney

To make this pungent delicacy, Bangladeshis ferment a fish in a pot oiled with its innards.

Mursik

In Kenya, celebrations for victorious runners often begin with a sip of fermented milk.

Araga may be stored in an embossed leather flask called a kogeerzhik.

Araga

Traditional Tuvan booze is made from milk and distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.

Tongba

Every mug of Nepalese millet beer is basically bottomless.

Kurt

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.

Qvevri

These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.