Foods Christina Dresser Has Tried

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

A bland but storied soup is always on the menu in the U.S. Senate.

Chefs carefully detoxify this East Coast pufferfish to create sweet, fried “chicken wings of the sea.”

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

Alaska's wildflowers produce this vibrant jelly.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.

Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.

Anyone for a shot of “Black Death”?