Prepared Foods
Rillettes
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Sweets
This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Food Festivals
Every July, a seaside town pays homage to its local mollusks with eating contests, a marine-themed parade, and plenty of fresh seafood.
Drinks
These seasonal brews gets made with an ephemeral ingredient.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.
Prepared Foods
There's much more to these offal-based meatballs than the unfortunate double meaning of their name.
Sweets
Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.
Drinks
A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.
Drinks
This Southern church group favorite isn't Slavic at all.
Sweets
This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.
Prepared Foods
This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.
Sweets
This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.
Sweets
This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.
Drinks
The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.
Sweets
A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Sweets
These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.
Sweets
These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.