Sweets
Eccles Cake
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.
Meats & Animal Products
In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Drinks
Anyone for a shot of “Black Death”?
Gastro
These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.
Sweets
These bird-shaped cakes once fueled miners in Japan's Fukuoka region.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Drinks
One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.
Gastro
To make the perfect matcha, start with the perfect whisk.
Sweets
These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Sweets
This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Prepared Foods
Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Gastro
A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.
Fruits & Vegetables
The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.