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Underground Cooking

Sirocco

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

A recently-unearthed pot of rye bread sits on the shore of Lake Laugarvatn.

The Icelandic Bakery That Buries Its Bread in Hot Springs

Laugarvatn Fontana's sweet, cakey rye gets baked by geothermal energy.

Tiffany Eastham January 17, 2022

San Francisco Mazapa, Mexico

La Gruta

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

New York, New York

Matryoshka at Wall Street Bath & Spa 88

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Madfouna

This Saharan sand-baked fare is nicknamed “Berber pizza.”

Pachamanca

In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.

Hāngi

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

Mechoui

In this Moroccan street specialty, whole-roasted lamb is cooked in underground clay pits and sold by weight.

Steam rises from a hot spring in Furnas in the Azores.

Why a Volcano Is Crucial to This Azorean Chef's Homestyle Stew

While male chefs make cozido gourmet, Teresa Casada sticks to tradition.

Lynn Freehill-Maye July 6, 2018

Cozido das Furnas

In this island town, stew gets cooked by volcano.

Shidol Chutney

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

Dublin, Ireland

Ancient Bog Butter

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

Qvevri

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

Caffeinated salad—how efficient.

Lahpet Thoke

In Myanmar, fermented tea leaves make a tangy, caffeinated salad.

Powdered maca root.

Maca

The Andean root once fueled Inca warriors.

Smen in a Marrakesh souk.

Smen

This Moroccan butter ferments underground for years and smells like blue cheese.

Slices of fresh hverabrauð.

Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

A beachside bounty from a clambake.

Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.