Fruits & Vegetables
Cherimoya
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Drinks
This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.
Prepared Foods
This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Sweets
A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.
Sweets
This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.
Sweets
In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Drinks
Teething babies and royalty were fans of this British city's signature sherry.
Fruits & Vegetables
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians banded together to save a beloved heirloom squash.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.