Drinks
Salep
A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Drinks
A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.
Sweets
The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.
Ingredients & Condiments
The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.
Drinks
It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.
Gastro
These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.
Sweets
These clear cakes house intricate scenes of fish, flowers, and more.
Gastro
A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.
Drinks
A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.
Drinks
The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.
Meats & Animal Products
The Galician cheese named for a nipple and brought to you by “blonde” cows.
Sweets
Maui's sherbet-ice cream hybrid is a light, fruity, creamy delight.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Drinks
A seasonal Hungarian spritzer has a language all its own.
Gastro
This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.
Ingredients & Condiments
In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.
Gastro
The Kichwa begin every day with tea and dream interpretation.
Drinks
Made from dozens of regional flowers and herbs, this tea reflects the unique flora of Loja, Ecuador.
Gastro
The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Sweets
A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.
Ingredients & Condiments
This famous Italian honey is now produced only on an Australian island.
Drinks
This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.
Sweets
Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.
Ingredients & Condiments
This varietal of rice is so good that it's compared to ice cream.