Fruits & Vegetables
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Some bread goes in the oven for an hour; some goes underground for two years.
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Fruits & Vegetables
Some bread goes in the oven for an hour; some goes underground for two years.
Prepared Foods
The fusion dish dates back to Italy's occupation of Ethiopia in the 1930s.
Ingredients & Condiments
In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.
Gastro
The birthplace of coffee celebrates community with a sensory feast.
Drinks
Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.
Prepared Foods
On Sham el-Nessim, Egyptians celebrate spring by gathering around picnic spreads of fermented fish.
Fruits & Vegetables
Dates from this desert oasis have been sweetening Egyptian tables since pharaonic times.
Drinks
This beer was popular more than 3,000 years ago.
Prepared Foods
The fragrant, intricately spiced street food is a medina specialty.
Gastro
A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.
Prepared Foods
This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.
Ingredients & Condiments
Morocco's nutty, decadent spread is made from the prized oil of the argan tree.
Prepared Foods
This Saharan sand-baked fare is nicknamed “Berber pizza.”
Prepared Foods
Journey into the Marrakesh Kasbah to find this lean, slightly sweet favorite.
Prepared Foods
In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.
Gastro
These purses help Uruguayans drink mate anytime, anywhere.
Gastro
An unassuming oil drum houses a three-tiered oven.
Drinks
In the Peruvian jungle, some families still make this homemade spirit.
Prepared Foods
You'll have a ball with this Latin American specialty.
Drinks
A sacred alcoholic drink made from chewed and fermented yuca.
Meats & Animal Products
Palm weevil larvae make succulent street snacks in the Amazon.
Gastro
In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.
Meats & Animal Products
These giant, volcano-shaped barnacles house sweet, crablike meat.
Sweets
The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.