Fruits & Vegetables
Stinging Nettles
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Ingredients & Condiments
This mushroom tastes just like chicken.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Gastro
This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Gastro
A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.
Prepared Foods
A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
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.
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
On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Drinks
This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.
Prepared Foods
This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.
Prepared Foods
A sailor's stew that's come to define Liverpudlians.
Sweets
This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.
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.