Fruits & Vegetables
Yangmei
It's nicknamed “yumberry” for a reason.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
It's nicknamed “yumberry” for a reason.
Sweets
Portuguese traders' love of marzipan paved the way for Thailand's vibrant mung bean candy.
Sweets
In Idaho, even sundaes pay tribute to the state's beloved tuber.
Sweets
French Canadians find “nun’s farts” addictively delicious.
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Fruits & Vegetables
A Filipino fruit that smells like gasoline and tastes like pears, jackfruit, and pineapple.
Fruits & Vegetables
Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Meats & Animal Products
These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.
Prepared Foods
This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.
Sweets
This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.
Sweets
This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Prepared Foods
These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.
Sweets
This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.
Sweets
The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Sweets
These French candies originally came in seashells.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Prepared Foods
A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Gastro
To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.
Sweets
The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.