Foods ege Has Tried

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

A 2,500-year-old Persian dessert evolved into this Indian summertime favorite.

A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.

This crunchy, sweet, and tart noodle sorbet is one of the world's oldest frozen desserts.

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.

We have the Ottoman sultans to thank for this creamy Turkish dessert made of chicken breast.

The first thing eaten off the Ark.

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

On Easter in Greece, whole lambs roast beside succulent skewers of their offal.

A bit of the past bubbles up in Israel's reinvention of its classic summer sipper.

Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.

This savory “head and hooves” soup makes a hearty breakfast in Iran.

In Turkey, drinkers head off hangovers with creamy tripe soup.

Turkish legends trace these raw meatballs to the time of the prophet Abraham.