Food Festivals
Batalla del Vino
Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Food Festivals
Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Sweets
The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.
Sweets
Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.
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.
Sweets
Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.
Sweets
These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Drinks
This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.
Drinks
The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.
Sweets
This hand-pulled cotton candy treat from Iran looks like threads of unspun silk.
Drinks
The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.