Fruits & Vegetables
Cochayuyo
This hearty kelp has been feeding Chileans for at least 14,000 years.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
This hearty kelp has been feeding Chileans for at least 14,000 years.
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Prepared Foods
Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Prepared Foods
Denmark's open-faced sandwiches are equal parts decadent and decorative.
Prepared Foods
This controversial meat is ingrained in ancient Nordic culture.
Prepared Foods
The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.
Drinks
You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.
Prepared Foods
This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.
Prepared Foods
There's much more to these offal-based meatballs than the unfortunate double meaning of their name.
Sweets
Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.
Drinks
In Togolese markets, locals socialize over gourds of this sweet-and-sour sorghum beer.
Meats & Animal Products
"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.
Prepared Foods
Folding and deep-frying pies is a beloved Neapolitan tradition.
Prepared Foods
Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”
Drinks
Nothing says “happy holidays” quite like mulled wine and a flaming, rum-soaked sugar loaf.
Sweets
Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.
Sweets
This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Sweets
This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.
Sweets
During Carnival, Neapolitans fill up on these fluffy potato doughnuts.
Prepared Foods
Say “roll eggs” super fast in Uganda and you'll receive something far tastier than a luxury watch.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Sweets
Local lore claims that German bakers made these pastries as an act of quiet rebellion during French occupation.