Sweets
Exploding Chocolate Teacakes
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Prepared Foods
A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Sweets
This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.
Sweets
A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Sweets
This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Drinks
A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.
Sweets
Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Fruits & Vegetables
The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Sweets
The original energy bar.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Sweets
This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.
Prepared Foods
Baking this dual-layered bread is a difficult art.
Sweets
A watermelon-and-bubblegum-flavored treat courtesy of Mexico's favorite cactus.
Sweets
Sour green sweets commemorate a victorious Scottish skirmish of 1337.
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Drinks
A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.
Ingredients & Condiments
A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.