Drinks
Mote con Huesillos
A syrupy cup of peaches and wheat kernels is a customary reward after a Santiago mountain hike.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
A syrupy cup of peaches and wheat kernels is a customary reward after a Santiago mountain hike.
Drinks
Peru's purple drink made from purple corn.
Fruits & Vegetables
Relatively unknown outside South America, the tart, tomato-like fruit makes beloved juices and cocktails.
Fruits & Vegetables
This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.
Prepared Foods
Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.
Sweets
This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Gastro
This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Sweets
Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Meats & Animal Products
This protein-rich legacy of the Aztecs makes for a savory taco filling.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Sweets
This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Sweets
This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.