Gastro
Celery Vase
Remembering a time when designated celery vases were prized centerpieces.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Gastro
Remembering a time when designated celery vases were prized centerpieces.
Gastro
A relic from the era of highly specialized cutlery.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Meats & Animal Products
The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.
Fruits & Vegetables
The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Ingredients & Condiments
Real maraschinos were born more than a century ago in an Italian distillery.
Prepared Foods
Folding and deep-frying pies is a beloved Neapolitan tradition.
Prepared Foods
Scotland's beloved traditional dish is deep-fried and served up fast-food style.
Gastro
This device bucks the Russian tradition of sharing a cup of tea and makes just enough hot water for one person.
Ingredients & Condiments
Invented in Scotland in the late 1800s, this syrupy “instant coffee” is now a beloved baking ingredient.
Drinks
This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Sweets
Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.
Drinks
When faced with less-than-optimal ingredients, Swedes and Norwegians once clarified their brews with eggs.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Gastro
This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Drinks
This is one expensive load of crap.
Ingredients & Condiments
It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.