Sweets
Black Sesame Sweet Soup
This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.
Gastro
A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Sweets
These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Prepared Foods
Though its home region has been split by war, love for this hearty pastry transcends borders.
Prepared Foods
Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.
Prepared Foods
These salty potatoes were originally boiled in seawater.
Sweets
This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.
Drinks
This Canary Islands' specialty upgrades coffee with layers of condensed milk and liqueur.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Haitian mushroom transforms rice into an inky, earthy delicacy.
Sweets
This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Prepared Foods
In Turkey, drinkers head off hangovers with creamy tripe soup.
Sweets
This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.
Prepared Foods
This haggis-meatloaf mashup is a Romanian Easter classic.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
Some Sicilians start their day with this decadent combination.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Sweets
This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.
Ingredients & Condiments
On one small island, this golden liquid is both a local delicacy and traditional medicine.
Sweets
These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.