Foods dee4di Has Tried

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

The original energy bar.

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

The Soviet-Korean carrot salad is a sweet-and-sour testament to a diaspora's resilience.

A distinctive herb named after a First Lady.

Take the name of this street treat literally.

Some families keep their holiday meal fresh by letting it live in their bathtub.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

The dessert that's also a meal.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

The decadent, overloaded Russian pie once contained sturgeon spinal cord.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.

The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."

Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

Make yourself delicious jewelry with these sweet Italian biscuits.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

What began as an April Fools' Day prank ended in a testicle-spiked beer.