Fruits & Vegetables
Ridgeway Cantaloupe
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Ingredients & Condiments
Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Sweets
Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Prepared Foods
Some families keep their holiday meal fresh by letting it live in their bathtub.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Sweets
These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Gastro
This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Gastro
This praised oyster shucker is as elegant as it is dangerous.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”
Prepared Foods
North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.
Fruits & Vegetables
The spiky, fruit cup-flavored orb made an appearance on “Star Trek.”
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Drinks
Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.
Gastro
These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.
Meats & Animal Products
In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.
Fruits & Vegetables
The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.