Prepared Foods
Hákarl
Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Prepared Foods
Icelanders make a very, very good dog.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Prepared Foods
Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Drinks
Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.
Sweets
These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Gastro
These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.
Drinks
Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.
Gastro
This traditional Georgian feast is characterized by lots of food, lots of wine, and lots of rules.
Gastro
Grab life by the Georgian wine horn.
Sweets
Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.
Drinks
The ocean-scented brew pays homage to an old Scottish style.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”
Gastro
Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.
Drinks
Anyone for a shot of “Black Death”?
Prepared Foods
The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.
Prepared Foods
In Armenia, hangovers call for a hearty soup of boiled cow hooves.
Sweets
These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.
Food Festivals
Germans turn up for a rare, pointed cabbage.
Gastro
A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.
Drinks
There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.