Prepared Foods
Alheira
This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Drinks
Only a few breweries still make smoky beer in this classic German style.
Sweets
The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Gastro
Chile’s clambake may be the world's oldest recipe.
Fruits & Vegetables
This Brazilian fruit is cacao's lesser-known, tangy cousin.
Drinks
Peru's purple drink made from purple corn.
Fruits & Vegetables
The Brazilian tree gets covered by its tart purple fruit.
Ingredients & Condiments
As Brazil's forests of Araucaria angustifolia dwindle, so do the harvests of their delicious seeds.
Sweets
There's nothing tragic about this Brazilian pairing of salty, white cheese and guava paste.
Prepared Foods
Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.