Ingredients & Condiments
Chuños
A key step in the Andean technique of freeze-drying potatoes is stomping on them.
Foods ChristinaTheOwl Has Tried
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Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Meats & Animal Products
Big-Bottomed Ants
Catch these fiercely guarded queens for a crunchy, caviar-flavored snack.
Prepared Foods
Cuy
The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Fruits & Vegetables
Ají Charapita
The Peruvian pepper tastes like spicy citrus.
Prepared Foods
Causa
Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.
Sweets
Picarones
The sweet potato donuts are an integral part of the Afro-Peruvian community.
Fruits & Vegetables
Lúcuma
This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.
Drinks
Makgeolli
South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.
Gastro
Goon Sack
The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.
Ingredients & Condiments
Chicken Salt
Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.
Meats & Animal Products
Smiley Fritz
The meat that literally puts a smile on Australians' faces.
Prepared Foods
Democracy Sausage
Come to vote, leave with a sausage.
Sweets
Musk Sticks
This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.
Ingredients & Condiments
Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey
Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.
Sweets
Fairy Bread
A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.
Gastro
Tim Tam Slam
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
