Foods Aldewerelde Has Tried

Small Haitian distilleries are producing some of the purest rum in the world.

Real maraschinos were born more than a century ago in an Italian distillery.

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

Celebrate the harvest and the return of a beloved mythical king with this 26-dish Malayali feast.

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Saffron, rose water, and pistachios combine in a fragrant, sweet-savory treat.

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

These saffron buns are eaten on Lucia Day in Sweden.

Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

A distillery's abandoned barrels of cinnamon liqueur led to this new Dutch tradition.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

This edible silver garnish has long added bling to South Asian cuisine.

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

On April 14, lonely South Korean singles are encouraged to drown their sorrows in black noodles.

A 2,500-year-old Persian dessert evolved into this Indian summertime favorite.

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

This sharp and salty Egyptian cheese ferments for months in a bath of milk and spices.

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

This sweet and salty Indian drink keeps an endangered soda bottle in business.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.