Ingredients & Condiments
Maggi Seasoning
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Sweets
The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Prepared Foods
Idaho's fried specialty makes steak a finger food.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Prepared Foods
What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.
Ingredients & Condiments
In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Sweets
This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.
Sweets
After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Drinks
Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.
Meats & Animal Products
Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Ingredients & Condiments
These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Drinks
This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.
Gastro
The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Sweets
In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.
Ingredients & Condiments
This cotton candy-like garnish is made of dried, candied meat.